Meaning of clerkship | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or business of a clerk.
   countable, uncountable
2. A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
   countable, uncountable
3. Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.
   countable, uncountable

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.”

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