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desk

The correct spelling is desk.

How to pronounce desk

/dɛsk/
noun

IPA: /dɛsk/

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The correct spelling is desk. A 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 un… For example: "city desk"

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city desk

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A 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.
  2. 2.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. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
  3. 3.A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.

verb

  1. 1.To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
  2. 2.To equip with a desk or desks.

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