desk
noun
an article of furniture having a broad, usually level, writing surface, as well as drawers or compartments for papers, writing materials, etc.
desks
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pluralof desk.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It was there I encountered the stories about government workers being ordered back to their desks by the Giuliani administration in the hot zone.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Dust and debris covered chairs and desks in the regional ministry offices.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
After a multiyear drought in tech IPOs, Wall Street’s equity capital-markets desks are raking in fees again thanks to the artificial-intelligence boom.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The biggest set is the interior of the police headquarters – an open-plan office with personal effects on each of the desks and boards of photographs and details of the fictional cases they're working on.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Here the Wall Street bond trading desks exploited another blind spot in the rating agencies’ models.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
