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city desk

city desk noun: the department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.

Noun

city desk (plural city desks)

  1. (Canada, US) The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.
    • There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk.1940, Helen Hughes, News and the Human Interest Story, page 21
  2. (UK) The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing financial and business news.
    • Many expected the then editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, who had traded stock on the basis of his city desk's inside tips, to be fired, but he retained the support of the company, until eventually a bigger, ethical scandal involving faked pictures forced him from office.2014, Ian Hargreaves, Journalism: A Very Short Introduction, page 87

Forms of city desk

pluralcity desks

Questions about city desk

What does city desk mean?
City desk means the department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.
What part of speech is city desk?
City desk is a noun.
What is the plural of city desk?
The plural of city desk is city desks.

Words near city desk in the dictionary

  1. city centre
  2. city centres
  3. city chicken
  4. city council
  5. city councils
  6. city desk
  7. city desks
  8. City Dulas
  9. city dweller
  10. city dwellers
  11. City editor

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