Meaning of deskful | Babel Free

Definitions

The amount that a desk will hold.

Examples

“So far as you know, after Ribbentrop had received this deskful of complaints from the Vatican, which he neither read nor acknowledged, did Ribbentrop take any steps or do anything to find out whether those complaints were justified and true, or did he not?”

“The main idea generates other ideas, which follow in natural order: He hated to go home because he knew he would have to face his nagging wife and a deskful of unpaid bills and his unruly children.”

“And why have so many pages, tons, desksful of pages, been written, if I can only babble as though I were the first to emerge from the loam onto the shores of the ocean?”

“If you were to pull back further to see all of Europe you might find at the end of those roads bold new headquarters of chemical companies which employed deskfuls of economists to monitor subsidy payments and adjust pricing in accordance with any change in them, and laboratoryfuls of people working on genetic modifications which would allow their employers to patent seeds themselves.”

“Browning bounded in his chair, "Lyrics?" he said. “I've got deskfuls of them.””

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