desk
A1Frequent NGSL-2UK /desk/US /desk/
Meaning
noun
a piece of furniture like a table, often with drawers (= parts like boxes in it with handles on the front for pulling them open), that you sit at to read, write, work, etc.
“at a desk, I spend all day sitting at a desk.”
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“But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk.”
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But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk.
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