Synonyms for desk
dɛskdesk

Princeton's WordNet

1. desknoun

   a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments

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1. • Table

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1. scrutoire

   a type of desk for writing

   jimmy sat down at the scrutoire and finished his paper

   Submitted by acronimous on February 20, 2018  

2. table

   a flat surface with legs to support it

   a cloth on my table

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "desk":

   office, bureau, desktop, sub-office, counter, documentary, desks, theoretical, room, comptoir

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1. Matthew Haimes:

   At Credit Suisse we set up a private banking multi-asset class sales desk within the investment bank, so the client has one point of contact.

2. Albert Einstein:

   If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign

3. Elizabeth Dodson:

   Most people have boxes in the closet filled with owners manuals, folders of paper in a desk about the mortgage and sales documents when you bought the home, a stack of product brochures for a home remodel you are planning for, a box of utility bills on the desk, and post-it notes and paper lists of all the things you need to fix or maintain the home, all of this paper scattered everywhere in the home means it takes you forever to find something, and it mentally wears on you about how unorganized you really are.

4. Malcolm Forbes:

   If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

5. Robert Hurt:

   TRAPPIST-1 was hands down the most amazing thing I've ever worked on, i remember when that paper hit my desk, I glanced at the light curve of the star and my jaw hit the floor. For all my work on transiting exoplanets, I had never seen that. It was the result of 500 hours of observation that revealed seven planets. I saw these syncopated dips and it was the most beautiful data I had ever seen. What an amazingly bizarre system it was.