city desk
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing financial and business news.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk."
- "Many expected the then editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, who had traded stock on the basis of his city desk's inside tips, to be fired, but he retained the support of the company, until eventually a bigger, ethical scandal involving faked pictures forced him from office."