desked
/dɛskt/
desked adjective: seated at a desk. Also the simple past and past participle of desk.
Adjective
desked (not comparable)
- Seated at a desk.
- The deskless executive faces reality far more readily than the desked executive — if we may call him that — can ever do.1957, The New Yorker - Volume 33, page 132
- Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends...2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6
Also used as
desked is also the simple past and past participle of desk.
Words formed from desked
Phrases with desked
Questions about desked
- What does desked mean?
- Desked means seated at a desk.
- What part of speech is desked?
- Desked is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce desked?
- Desked is pronounced /dɛskt/.
Words near desked in the dictionary
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