- a piece of furniture like a table, often with drawers (= parts like boxes in it with handles on the front for pulling them open), that you sit at to read, write, work, etc.
- at a desk I spend all day sitting at a desk.
- behind a desk The mayor sat behind his desk.
- a desk drawer/lamp/calendar
- He abandoned a career at sea for a desk job.
Extra ExamplesTopics Working lifea1, Educationa1, Houses and homesa1- A very strange request landed on my desk this morning.
- She got up from her desk and went to the window.
- He was sitting at his desk working when we got home.
- I left the file on your desk.
- My desk gets very cluttered if I don't clear it at the end of each day.
- Papers littered the desk and the floor.
- The empty desk suggested she had already gone home.
- The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview.
- They put me on desk duty for a month.
- a computer which takes up less desk space
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- huge
- large
- …
- sit at
- get up from
- leave
- …
- drawer
- top
- calendar
- …
- at a/the desk
- behind a/the desk
- on a/the desk
- …
- a place where you can get information or be served at an airport, a hotel, etc.
- at a desk There was a long queue at the check-in desk.
- behind a desk The woman behind the reception desk was always on the phone.
- on a desk We asked the man on the information desk for a map of the city.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- front
- main
- reception
- …
- call
- man
- run
- …
- clerk
- officer
- staff
- …
- at the… desk
- on the… desk
- an office at a newspaper, television company, etc. that deals with a particular subject
- the sports desk
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- front
- main
- reception
- …
- call
- man
- run
- …
- clerk
- officer
- staff
- …
- at the… desk
- on the… desk
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin desca, probably based on Provençal desca ‘basket’ or Italian desco ‘table, butcher's block’, both based on Latin discus from Greek diskos.
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