单词 | hot-desk |
释义 | hot-deskv. Originally and chiefly British. intransitive. To practise hot-desking (hot-desking n.); to allocate workspace or arrange an office to enable hot-desking. Also transitive. ΚΠ 1993 Managem. Today Feb. 84 IBM is ‘hot desking’ several of its offices. 1994 Computers in Libraries Apr. 42/1 Wherever there is a PC with modem..soon there will be wireless portables..we can work from. It is thus possible to ‘hot-desk’ close to our customers, wherever they are moving to. 1995 Evening Standard (Nexis) 13 Oct. 12 There were still insufficient desks and telephones to go round. We were supposed to ‘hot desk it’ with people working shifts. But..everyone seemed to be there all day. 1996 W. Gibson Idoru iii. 29 People don't have their own desks. Check a computer and a phone out of the Cage when you come in. Hotdesk it if you need more peripherals. 2005 Digit Oct. 37/1 You could ‘hot-desk’ or share space with another company. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1993 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。