Desked
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɛskt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Desked is an adjective meaning Seated at a desk.
Meaning
Seated at a desk.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of desk
Example Sentences
Thursday with my 11:30 canceled (a standards review, the proctor had the flu), I'd had enough of being desked.
The deskless executive faces reality far more readily than the desked executive — if we may call him that — can ever do.
Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include escritoire, console, locker, drawer, cabinet, table.
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