desk jobnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdesk ˌdʒɒb/us/ˈdesk ˌdʒɑːb/a job working in an office
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- office junior
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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Examples from literature
- It was after I had moved to New York and had taken a desk job that I detected myself in the act, as it were, of plumping out.