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Meaning of city desk | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.
    Canada, US
  2. The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing financial and business news.
    British

Examples

“There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk.”
“Many expected the then editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, who had traded stock on the basis of his city desk's inside tips, to be fired, but he retained the support of the company, until eventually a bigger, ethical scandal involving faked pictures forced him from office.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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