0 a type of table that you can work at, often one with drawers -- （常指帶抽屜的）書桌，辦公桌，寫字枱
1 a place, often with a counter (= a long flat narrow surface) especially in a hotel or airport, where you can get information or service -- （尤指飯店或機場的）服務臺，詢問處
a check-in/information/reception desk 登機櫃枱／詢問處／接待處
2 an office that deals with a particular type of news for a newspaper or broadcasting company -- （報館或廣播公司負責某一類新聞的）辦公室，部，室，組
How well do legislation about homelessness, codes of guidance, local authority policy about domestic violence reach through to the ever-more-pressured workers at the housing association desks?
The drawback with this system is that even 8group desks normally have 16 or more input channels, of which only 2 are really needed for the stereo input.
The area between the stalls was occupied by a series of desks, three rows on the right and a larger number on the left of the throne.
When the other desks join in, the first half/hexachord of the 12-note theme is heard for the last time, almost nostalg ically, as a gesture of farewell.
We'd been rehearsing this several times and were all sitting around at our desks in the classroom, and, of course, we started behaving like children because we were bored.
Evidence for its popularity is that introductory textbooks and collections of original readings keep appearing on the desks of sociolinguistics students.
Individual desks for administration and reception staff are arranged around the perimeter of the space, some in close proximity to reception, some more removed.
The flapdown tables are very different to their desks.
