Desk I Sitting Sat Noun Spend Day Mayor

• i spend all day sitting at a desk.
• the mayor sat behind his desk.
• a desk drawer/lamp/calendar
• he abandoned a career at sea for a desk job.

desk

1. 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.
• SEE ALSO hot-desk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hot-desk_2
• I spend all day sitting at a desk.
• The mayor sat behind his desk.
• a desk drawer/lamp/calendar
• He abandoned a career at sea for a desk job.

Extra Examples

• A very strange request landed on my desk this morning.
• He got up from his 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
2. a place where you can get information or be served at an airport, a hotel, etc.
• SEE ALSO cash desk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cash-desk
• There was a long queue at the check-in desk.
• The girl behind the reception desk was always on the phone.
• We asked the man on the information desk for a map of the city.

Extra Examples

• Staff experiencing problems with their computers should call the help desk.
3. an office at a newspaper, television company, etc. that deals with a particular subject
• SEE ALSO city desk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/city-desk
• the sports desk

Word Origin

• late 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.