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  • noun Plural form of desk.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desk.

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Examples

  • The sofas were made with built-in desks that can be removed in order to install the laptops.

    Couch Full of Color – The Pixel Couch 2009

  • One rumor that was making its rounds around Wall Street trading desks is that the so-called "fat finger" trade occurred at Citigroup.

    Obama, Congress seek answers to breathtaking stock market plunge 2010

  • • Ryanair, a European low-cost carrier, plans to close its airport check-in desks by early next year, forcing all passengers to print their boarding pass at home.

    Airport Check-in: Businesses, airlines eye air-traffic control 2009

  • I've always thought built-in desks looked good and that would be cheaper.

    Build Your Own Custom Ergnomic Desk | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • My own patience was tested by the check-in desks manned with people inexplicably on the phone as the growing queue stood still.

    Light blogging Jeff 2007

  • And we snagged two old school desks from the garbage pile at Misterpie's old school, her dresser and one bookshelf were rescued from garbage day, and one cabinet was one that the former tenants of the house left behind, and Misterpie took it apart and rejigged it to better fit the ceiling height and intended purpose.

    Archive 2007-09-01 kittenpie 2007

  • And we snagged two old school desks from the garbage pile at Misterpie's old school, her dresser and one bookshelf were rescued from garbage day, and one cabinet was one that the former tenants of the house left behind, and Misterpie took it apart and rejigged it to better fit the ceiling height and intended purpose.

    Boos and Yahoos kittenpie 2007

  • Its open plan engendered a communal family life (a life that even then, it seems, homework threatened to fracture; they designed built-in desks so that schoolwork would be done in family surroundings), and an elaborate system of sliding, folding, and pivoting wooden partitions divided the open space into bedrooms.

    Where Mother Saw Best 2007

  • Its open plan engendered a communal family life (a life that even then, it seems, homework threatened to fracture; they designed built-in desks so that schoolwork would be done in family surroundings), and an elaborate system of sliding, folding, and pivoting wooden partitions divided the open space into bedrooms.

    Where Mother Saw Best 2007

  • After passing by empty and depressing check-in desks I found the 'UK arrivals' lounge.

    Jet (ooh ooh ooh ooh woo-woo woo woo) Jonathan 2005

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