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desk job en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (informal) An employment position in which one remains mostly seated at a desk, performing routine office work.
   • For 13 months in 1966 and '67 Corson served as commander of 3,500 men in 114 platoons spread out in hamlets across five provinces in South Viet Nam. . . . In 1968 Corson was reassigned to a desk job at the Pentagon. 1981 July 13, “Advice and Dissent”, in Time:
   • "I really like working with the clients. Things break, but I've always been handy. And it sure beats a desk job," he says. 2006 June 5, Janet Novack, “Beach House Bummer”, in Forbes, retrieved 21 Aug 2010:

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Relateds

bureaucrat · paperwork · pen-pusher · pencil pusher

Translations (3)

pl praca biurowa (Translations) · fr emploi de bureau (Translations) · fi toimistotyö (Translations)