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clerkships

clerkships is the plural of clerkship.

Meaning of clerkship

Noun

clerkship (countable and uncountable, plural clerkships)

  1. The state or business of a clerk.
    • 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...1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62
  2. A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
  3. Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.

Questions about clerkships

What is clerkships the plural of?
Clerkships is the plural of clerkship.

Words near clerkships in the dictionary

  1. clerks of the pells
  2. clerks of the pipe
  3. clerks of the works
  4. clerks of works
  5. clerkship
  6. clerkships
  7. clerky
  8. Clermont
  9. Clermont County
  10. Clermont-Ferrand
  11. clerocidin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clerkships (page history and authors); clerkship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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