Que signifie desk en anglais?

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desk Signification, définition

0 a table, often with drawers, at which you can work -- bureau [ masculine ]
- a desk with a laptop on it un bureau avec un ordinateur portable dessus
1 [ usually singular ] a place that gives information or a particular service -- bureau [ masculine ]
- the information desk l’accueil
- the check-in desk le bureau d’enregistrement
2 a piece of furniture, often like a table, for sitting at while writing, reading etc -- bureau
- She kept the pile of letters in a drawer in her desk.

Sometimes you wonder which bureaucrat sitting behind his desk thought this one up.
I can see the requests to speak piling up on my desk.
In particular, she has promised that there is going to be a human rights desk officer in every external office.
That seems more appealing to me than sitting at a desk looking at all sorts of electronic documents on a screen.
Some of us decided not to accept this proposal and made our way to the check-in desk for the original flight, which was then closed.
It amounts to one official having spent one afternoon behind a desk dreaming up all kinds of positive effects which in no way tally with reality.