Desk

Quick meaning: Desk is a noun meaning A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.

Meaning

A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.

More Meanings

1. Ellipsis of mixing desk.
2. A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.
3. (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
4. (transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
5. A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
6. (transitive, journalism) To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.
7. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.

Example Sentences

the city desk, the sports desk

the options desk, the equities desk

He sat at his desk for hours, trying to finish the report.

She organized her notes neatly on her desk before starting the project.

Word Forms

• desks
• desking
• desked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include escritoire, console, locker, drawer, cabinet, table.

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