desk
/dɛsk/ verb C2- To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
- To equip with a desk or desks.
- To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.
He/she/it desks · Past desked · Past participle desked · -ing form desking
Verb forms
- Base form
- desk
- He/she/it
- desks
- Past
- desked
- Past participle
- desked
- -ing form
- desking
From the library
With a snappy “Good-morning, Pitcher,” Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him.
Instead of going straight into the adjoining room, where her desk was, she lingered, slightly irresolute, in the outer office.
Once she moved over by Maxwell’s desk, near enough for him to be aware of her presence.
The machine sitting at that desk was no longer a man; it was a busy New York broker, moved by buzzing wheels and uncoiling springs.
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