CLERKING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

-ing form of the verb clerk