clerking
- 1Present participle and gerund of clerk.
After law school she spent a year clerking for a federal judge.
Clerking in the records office gave her a thorough grounding in local history.
Note
The -ing form carries two quite different jobs. In offices, shops and courts it usually stands without an object: one clerks for a judge or in a records office, and as a gerund it names the work itself. In medicine it takes the patient as its object. A doctor clerking a new patient is taking the detailed history and doing the first examination. The object, or its absence, tells you which job is meant.
The junior doctor was clerking a new admission when the alarm sounded.
Clerking each patient properly took her nearly an hour.
clerking 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 → clerking: add -ing
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