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desk

noun as in table

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It can be easily rolled under a desk and kept out of the way, and rolled out when needed.

He sat at a desk and listened to his briefers, which included some boldface names from the Obama administration.

In 2011, Slootman was recruited to run ServiceNow, at the time a small software developer focused on the help desk market.

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“On the retail front, it’s been very different than the past few years,” says Karen Chang who heads an options trading desk at Bank of America.

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Pair these five-inch shorts with the Athena crop top for a set of basics that will take you from home desk to trail to swimming hole and back again without losing a beat.

I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.

But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.

President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”

While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.

She suggested that Gregory stack newspapers on his desk to give the set an intimate, coffeehouse feel.

At his desk sat his secretary, who had been a witness of the interview, lost in wonder almost as great as the Seneschal's own.

Taking his stand at the end of the desk, he made MacRae reiterate in detail the grim happenings of that night.

Dobson, mouth agape, struck a little bell on the desk and the orderly stepped in from the outer room.

When I again turned to Lessard he still stood at the end of the desk, industriously paring his fingernails.

He took his accustomed seat at the desk, and placed a large ledger before him.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to desk, such as: counter, davenport, escritoire, secretary, workspace, and lecturn.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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