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English word

desk

A1Frequent NGSL-2
UK /desk/US /desk/
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.

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Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
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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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