OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15462

desk

/dɛsk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
carpeta • escribanía • escritorio • mesabanco • pupitre • secreter
A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
sección
A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
the city desk, the sports desk
the options desk, the equities desk
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