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desk
adjectives
tidy
• How come your desk is always so tidy?
cluttered
(= covered with papers, books etc in an untidy way )
• His desk is so cluttered he can't find anything.
empty
(= that no one is using )
• There are one or two empty desks in the office.
a school desk
• The children are at their school desks by 8:30 in the morning.
an office desk
• I got back from holiday to find piles of papers on my office desk.
a writing desk
(= that you use for writing letters etc )
• Under the window was a small writing desk.
a wooden/mahogany/rosewood etc desk
• He sat at a plain wooden desk.
verbs
sit at a desk
• I don't want to do a job in which I'm sitting at a desk all day.
get up from your desk
• He got up from his desk to welcome the visitors.
tidy your desk
• I need to tidy my desk.
clear your desk
(= remove all the papers etc from it )
• It's a good idea to clear your desk regularly.
desk + NOUN
a desk job
(= working mostly at a desk in an office )
• He left his desk job to become a gardener.
a desk drawer
• I think I left my car keys in the desk drawer.
a desk lamp
• Don't forget to switch off the desk lamp.
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noun type of table ADJ. big, enormous, high, huge, large, vast | leather-topped | antique | empty The empty desk suggested she had already gone home. | cluttered, untidy | writing | office, school VERB + DESK sit at | get up from He got up from his desk and went to the window. | clear My desk gets very cluttered if I don't clear it at the end of each day. | arrive on, land on A very strange request landed on my desk this morning. DESK + NOUN drawer | diary, lamp | job PREP. at a/the ~ He was sitting at his desk working when we got home. | behind a/the ~ The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview. | on a/the ~ I left the file on your desk. place in a building where a service is provided ADJ. front, reception Leave your valuables at the reception desk. | cash, check-in, enquiry/enquiries, help, information, support She paid for the book at the cash desk. Staff experiencing problems with their computers should ring the help desk. DESK + NOUN clerk PREP. at the … ~ There was a long queue at the check-in desk. | on the … ~ We asked the man on the information desk for a map of the city.
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