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city desks

city desks is the plural of city desk.

Meaning of city desk

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

Questions about city desks

What is city desks the plural of?
City desks is the plural of city desk.

Words near city desks in the dictionary

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

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