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countable and uncountable, plural clerkships
The state or business of a clerk. quotations examples
Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.
1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62
(law) A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years. examples
(medicine) Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school. examples