clerking has definitions from the field of accounting
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[ noun ] (accounting) the activity of recording business transactions

Synonyms

bookkeeping

Used in print

(Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)

The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions .

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