clerkship

plural clerkships

1. countableuncountableThe state or business of a clerk.

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   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

2. countableuncountablelawA temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
3. countableuncountablemedicineClinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.