desk // noun [C]
CASH DESK, FRONT DESK, HELP DESK, TRADING DESK
1
a piece of furniture like a table that you sit at to work, use your computer, etc:
All staff have to be at their desks (= working) by nine o'clock.
Have the report on my desk (= finish it and give it to me) by Monday.
It's difficult to lead an organization from behind a desk (= without leaving your desk and talking to staff, etc.).
The company is struggling to fill empty desks (= get new employees to replace ones who have left).
2
the part of an organization where a particular type of work is done:
Our dealing desks provide market updates and analysis.
3
a place where you can get information or be served at an airport, a hotel, etc:
the person behind the reception desk
Would Ben Potter please report to the check-in desk?
CLEAR, CROSS
- exchangeable
- exchange control
- exchange economy
- exchange of shares
- exchange rate
- exchange rate exposure
- exchange rate mechanism
- excise
- excl.
- exclude
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusivity
- excuse
- ex-directory
- ex-dividend
- exec
- execute
- execution
- execution risk
- executive
- executive assistant
- executive chairman
- executive director