Desk Check In Reception I Noun Bre Pilot Job

• he used to be a pilot but now he has a desk job.
• the check-in desk
• the reception desk
• the sports desk

desk

1. a piece of furniture like a table, usually with drawers in it, that you sit at to read, write, work, etc.
• see also hot-desk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hot-desk_2
• He used to be a pilot but now he has a desk job.
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
• the check-in desk
• the reception 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

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.
• I worked the front desk as one of my first jobs.
• Leave your valuables at the reception 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.
• She called the front desk to let them know that he would be arriving.
• She paid for the book at the cash desk.
• Staff experiencing problems with their computers should call the help desk.
• The empty desk suggested she had already gone home.
• The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview.
• There was a long queue at the check-in desk.
• They put me on desk duty for a month.
• We asked the man on the information desk for a map of the city.
• a computer which takes up less desk space

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.