# clerkship

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #65,783

## Definitions
1. The state or business of a clerk.
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.

## Etymology
From clerk + -ship.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/clerkship