deskman

[ desk-man, -muhn ]

noun

, plural desk·men [desk, -men, -m, uh, n].

1. Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
2. a person who works at a desk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deskman¹

First recorded in 1890–95; desk + man

Example Sentences

She watched him as he moved away into the crowd, with powerful erect body—the deskman's droop almost gone out of his shoulders.

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But new-comers pressed forward and kept trying to convince the deskman that he had rooms somewhere, rooms that he had forgotten, or was saving for people who would never arrive.

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But the deskmen command a temporary majority: for the short while they shall hold the cards they have the right to call the game.

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There his friend Corporal Macey subdued his broad Irish smile and ordered the deskman to "book him up."

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Next he grasped a telephone and, in the words of the deskman, "spit Spig into the 'phone" for several minutes.

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