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deskmen

deskmen is the plural of deskman.

Meaning of deskman

Noun

deskman (plural deskmen)

  1. (US, dated) A subeditor.
    • His face showed his lack of confidence in the deskman.2007 January 21, Michael Connelly, “The Overlook”, in New York Times
  2. Anyone who works at a desk, as in a police station.

Questions about deskmen

What is deskmen the plural of?
Deskmen is the plural of deskman.

Words near deskmen in the dictionary

  1. desklets
  2. desklike
  3. deskman
  4. deskmate
  5. deskmates
  6. deskmen
  7. desknote
  8. desknotes
  9. deskpad
  10. deskpads
  11. deskpeople

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deskmen (page history and authors); deskman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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