[f. as prec. + -ERY.]
1. The occupation or profession of a clerk.
1883. Besant, Gard. Fair, I. iii. In clerkery, as in the Church or the law, or any other calling, there are degrees, grades, depths, and heights. Ibid. (1888), Eulogy R. Jeffries, 37. Had he been forced into clerkery or into trade.
2. A body or order of clerks.
1885. Academy, 11 July, 19/3. The worst of bureaucracies, a permanent clerkery.
