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单词 deskbound
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deskbound in American English

(ˈdeskˌbaund)
adjective
1. 
doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk
2. 
unfamiliar with actualities or practical matters outside one's own job
deskbound executives who can't grasp production problems
3. 
noncombatant
deskbound generals
Word origin
[1940–45; desk + -bound1]

Examples of 'deskbound' in a sentence
deskbound

Around 4.5million deskbound employees had to have time off during the past 12 months.If you look at other versions of the biography, he is deskbound, but that doesn't make great drama.It must have been music to the ears of the time-pushed, deskbound and plain fitness-phobic.They play a pair of deskbound incompetent cops who are always overshadowed by two star law enforcers.He found that the sedentary life of a deskbound management consultant meant that he put on weight.There is a groundswell of anger against this miserable attempt to turn children into deskbound drudges.
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