desk job

desk job
An employment position in which one remains mostly seated at a desk, performing routine office work.

For 13 months in 1966 and 67 Corson served as commander of 3,500 men in 114 platoons spread out in hamlets across five provinces in South Viet Nam. . . . In 1968 Corson was reassigned to a desk job at the Pentagon.


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  • desk job — ➔ job1 * * * desk job UK US noun [C] ► WORKPLACE a job that is done at a desk: »Not everyone is cut out for a desk job …   Financial and business terms

  • desk job — UK US noun [countable] [singular desk job plural desk jobs] a job that you do in an office working at a desk Thesaurus: types of job or workhyponym general words relating to jobs and work …   Useful english dictionary

  • desk job — desk .job n a job that involves working mostly at a desk in an office …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • desk job — desk ,job noun count a job you do in an office working at a desk …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • desk job — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms desk job : singular desk job plural desk jobs a job that you do in an office working at a desk …   English dictionary

  • desk job — noun (C) a job that involves working mostly at a desk in an office …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • desk job — noun a clerical or administrative job …   English new terms dictionary

  • desk — /desk/, n. 1. an article of furniture having a broad, usually level, writing surface, as well as drawers or compartments for papers, writing materials, etc. 2. a frame for supporting a book from which the service is read in a church. 3. a pulpit …   Universalium

  • desk — [desk] n. [ME deske < ML desca, a table, ult. < L discus: see DISCUS] 1. a piece of furniture equipped with drawers, compartments, etc., and a flat or sloping top for writing, drawing, or reading 2. a lectern 3. a) the post of a clerk,… …   English World dictionary

  • desk — mid 14c., from M.L. desca table to write on (mid 13c.), from L. discus quoit, platter, dish, from Gk. diskos. The M.L. is perhaps via It. desco. Used figuratively of office or clerical work since 1797; desk job is first attested 1965 …   Etymology dictionary

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