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The correct spelling is desk.
How to pronounce desk
/dɛsk/
nounIPA: /dɛsk/
Say it like: Des-k
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"
Usage Examples
“city desk”
Meanings
noun
- 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.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.A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.
verb
- 1.To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
- 2.To equip with a desk or desks.
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