clerked
USKLURKT/klɝkt/SayKLAHKTUK/klɑːkt/AUS/klɐːkt/
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of clerk.
After graduation, she clerked for a state supreme court justice.
He had clerked in his father's shop for years before opening his own business.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling does both jobs: she clerked for a judge (simple past) and she had clerked for a judge (participle, after have). Most often it reports work done as a clerk, frequently with for or in: for a justice, in a shop. Medicine gives it a separate meaning: having gathered a patient's history and examination findings at the initial assessment.
clerked is a form of clerk
clerk, verb: To work as a clerk, for example in a shop or office or as an assistant to a judge. Full entry
- Spelling
- clerk → clerked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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