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Meaning of desked | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
/dɛskt/

Definitions

Seated at a desk.

not-comparable

Examples

“The deskless executive faces reality far more readily than the desked executive — if we may call him that — can ever do.”
“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.”
“Thursday with my 11:30 canceled (a standards review, the proctor had the flu), I'd had enough of being desked.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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