desk job
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An employment position in which one remains mostly seated at a desk, performing routine office work.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""I really like working with the clients. Things break, but I've always been handy. And it sure beats a desk job," he says."