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Definition of Desk-bound
1. Adjective. Restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desk-bound
Literary usage of Desk-bound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Company Command: The Bottom Line by John G. Meyer, Jr., John G. Meyer (1995)
"... so they spend little time behind the desk—they don't want to be desk bound.
If you have a desk jockey, assign projects that can't be done at a desk. ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1843)
"... discovered a portable desk, bound round with rope, and floating in the water
of the canal. On again taking the main road at Four Posts, ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1873)
"Or, if by sad mischance you are desk-bound even in summer, you can walk abroad
in books, if not with them. ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"You—welcome to Camp BVD even though you're desk-bound and town- chained! Wear it,
and be cool and comfortable all summer long. It won't bind or irritate. ..."
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