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How to pronounce desk
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What does desk mean?
nounA 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.
“He sat at his desk for hours, trying to finish the report.”
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.
A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
“the city desk, the sports desk”
verbTo shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
To equip with a desk or desks.
“Each row of desked benches was stepped up a step from the other until the top row of desked benches seemed to hit its high ceiling.”
To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.
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