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Definition of Deskmen
1. deskman [n] - See also: deskman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deskmen
Literary usage of Deskmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1835)
"45—47 The meat and beer breakfasts of our ancestors, which would now he so
formidable to deskmen and dandies, show how much depends upon constitution, ..."
2. Monthly Review (1798)
"... and rejected the counsel of charlatan orators and fungous deskmen, I cannot
help feeling, there Is nothing we have more to lament, than our present ..."
3. The Test of Scarlet: A Romance of Reality by Coningsby Dawson (1919)
"To-day of necessity our generals and their staffs are deskmen, ... Many of them
have never been anything but deskmen since this war started; their combatant ..."
4. Focus of Demons: Real Gremlins in the Works by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"The Bronfman family are “cut-outs”, what is known in MI-6 as “front men”--controlled
from London by MI-6 “deskmen”, intelligence jargon for controllers at ..."
5. So the World Goes by James William Sullivan (1897)
"To the amusement of the deskmen, he ran after the chief and went down stairs
beside the great man, crying and pleading and gesticulating. ..."
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