desks

noun

plural of desk
as in offices
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization the city desk of a prominent newspaper

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Recent Examples of desks Your team can end up sitting at their desks depleted, unable to access creative thinking or emotional regulation. — Roy Ward, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Meet the madogiwazoku cohort—older, underperforming, or redundant employees who are assigned desks near the window with little to no work to do. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026 Some thrift stores may accept oversized furniture like executive desks, entertainment centers, and armoires, as well as upholstered pieces like couches and sectionals. — Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 28 Sep. 2026 The wireless version makes the most sense for people who want fewer cables on their desks. — Sascha Brodsky, PC Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026 Local carpenters converted them into makeshift desks and chairs. — Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2026 By the doorway to the catwalk two people sat toiling at desks, one hand-beading a piece of cloth and the other machine sewing a denim garment. — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026 That includes teachers learning how the students will interact with the curriculum, as well as the variety of perspectives filling the desks in the classroom. — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026 But hundreds of flights were delayed, leaving travelers packed at re-booking desks. — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for desks
  1. offices
  2. departments
  3. agencies
  4. bureaus
  5. services
Noun
  • Crews went floor to floor, hitting individual cubicles, offices and even coordinating with a restaurant also housed in the building.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Kyiv is split in half by the Dnipro River, with the right bank home to the majority of the city’s business centers, offices and government institutions.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of offices
Noun
  • Her departure is not related to a round of layoffs that hit Disney this week; those cuts came primarily in the company’s tech and human resources departments.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Representatives for North Texas law enforcement agencies, including federal departments, shared Tuesday afternoon that 19 people have been indicted following the breakup of a drug trafficking organization.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of departments
Noun
  • The Fed has long blamed a range of factors for the cost overruns, including a spike in inflation, unexpected expenses such as asbestos remediation, and additional demands from review agencies.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The other, Patrick McHenry, was in Congress for 20 years and helped craft export controls on surveillance technologies that could benefit China’s military or intelligence agencies.
    — Patrick McHenry, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of agencies
Noun
  • For stronger protection, consider a credit freeze with all three major bureaus.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Register fraud alerts with Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, the three main credit reporting bureaus.
    — Brian Sloan,Dan Avery, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of bureaus
Noun
  • States have already started slashing caregivers’ pay and other critical disability services in anticipation of Medicaid cuts that will roll out next year.
    — STAT, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Rent now, pay later services are one form, which break rent into multiple payments.
    — Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of services

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“Desks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desks. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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