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desked

/dɛskt/

desked adjective: seated at a desk. Also the simple past and past participle of desk.

Adjective

desked (not comparable)

  1. 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

  1. deskbar
  2. deskbars
  3. deskbook
  4. deskbooks
  5. deskbound
  6. desked
  7. deskercise
  8. deskercises
  9. deskew
  10. deskewed
  11. deskewing

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