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desk::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | table |
| Has types | escritoire, secretaire, secretary, writing table, davenport, writing desk |
Examples of desk
desk
For now, the information desk, restrooms and offices in the new center are open.
From the orlandosentinel.com
I have them attached to a wall near my desk, at the ready when I need a chuckle.
From the time.com
That was the sound of a new complaint against Microsoft landing on Monti's desk.
From the businessweek.com
Also available through ProArts'phone or online outlets, theaters and front desk.
From the post-gazette.com
She was working on the coat-check desk in a Leeds jazz club that Rae frequented.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Leno said he hopes to have the bill on the governor's desk by the end of summer.
From the sfgate.com
Mr. Morgan briefly stood up on the reception desk to address the chanting crowd.
From the post-gazette.com
A red line around the desk tells inmates how close they can get to the controls.
From the timesunion.com
Ensure that communication between control desk and regional sites is consistent.
From the jobview.monster.com
- A piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
- A desk is a furniture form and a class of table often used in a work or office setting for reading or writing on or using a computer. Desks often have one or more drawers to store office supplies and papers. ...
- A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. ...
- (Desks) Like the davenport, above, a desk is a piece of furniture with a sloping-top for writing. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century examples were small, portable sloping-top boxes which would contain pen, ink and paper and provide for their use. ...
- Term referring to a group dealing with a specific currency or currencies.
- To be using a desk in a dream, denotes unforeseen ill luck will rise before you. To see money on your desk, brings you unexpected extrication from private difficulties.
- The trading desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York through which open market purchases and sales of government and federal agency securities are made. The desk maintains direct telephone communication with major government securities dealers. ...
- The station of the Chief Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate and assistants at the front of the Senate or House chamber. This term also refers to the offices of the Chief Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate.
- Piece used for doing work and holding papers, books, writing tools; usually found in an office
