desked

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛskt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛskt

Adjective

desked (not comparable)

  1. Seated at a desk.
    • 1957, The New Yorker - Volume 33, page 132:
      The deskless executive faces reality far more readily than the desked executive — if we may call him that — can ever do.
    • 2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6:
      Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.
    • 2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages:
      Thursday with my 11:30 canceled (a standards review, the proctor had the flu), I'd had enough of being desked.

Verb

desked

  1. simple past and past participle of desk
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