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CLERKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of recording business transactions
Synonyms:
bookkeeping; clerking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("clerking" is a kind of...):
accountancy; accounting (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)
Domain member category:
posting ((bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clerking"):
single-entry bookkeeping; single entry (a simple bookkeeping system; transactions are entered in only one account)
double-entry bookkeeping; double entry (bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another)
Derivation:
clerk (work as a clerk, as in the legal business)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb clerk
