Associations to the word «Deskman»

Noun

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Wiktionary

DESKMAN, noun. (US) (dated) A subeditor.
DESKMAN, noun. Anyone who works at a desk, as in a police station.

Dictionary definition

DESKMAN, noun. The police sergeant on duty in a police station.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats