{
    "term": "desk",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/of/office.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a piece of furniture like a table, often with drawers (= parts like boxes in it with handles on the front for pulling them open), that you sit at to read, write, work, etc.",
            "sensetop": "at a deskbehind a desk",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I spend all day sitting at a desk.",
                    "contextForm": "at a desk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The mayor sat behind his desk.",
                    "contextForm": "behind a desk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a desk drawer/lamp/calendar"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He abandoned a career at sea for a **desk job**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A very strange request landed on my desk this morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She got up from her desk and went to the window."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was sitting at his desk working when we got home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I left the file on your desk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My desk gets very cluttered if I don't clear it at the end of each day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Papers littered the desk and the floor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The empty desk suggested she had already gone home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They put me on desk duty for a month."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a computer which takes up less desk space"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life", "Education", "Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
                "verb + desk": ["sit at", "get up from", "leave"],
                "desk + noun": ["drawer", "top", "calendar"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the desk", "behind a/​the desk", "on a/​the desk"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a place where you can get information or be served at an airport, a hotel, etc.",
            "sensetop": "at a deskbehind a deskon a desk",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There was a long queue at the **check-in desk**.",
                    "contextForm": "at a desk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The woman behind the **reception desk** was always on the phone.",
                    "contextForm": "behind a desk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We asked the man on the information desk for a map of the city.",
                    "contextForm": "on a desk"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Holidays"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["front", "main", "reception"],
                "verb + desk": ["call", "man", "run"],
                "desk + noun": ["clerk", "officer", "staff"],
                "preposition": ["at the… desk", "on the… desk"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an office at a newspaper, television company, etc. that deals with a particular subject",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the sports desk"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["front", "main", "reception"],
                "verb + desk": ["call", "man", "run"],
                "desk + noun": ["clerk", "officer", "staff"],
                "preposition": ["at the… desk", "on the… desk"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/desk/",
                "audio": "de/desk/desk__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/desk/",
                "audio": "de/desk/desk__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from medieval Latin desca, probably based on Provençal desca ‘basket’ or Italian desco ‘table, butcher's block’, both based on Latin discus from Greek diskos."
}