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Definition of desk-bound in English: desk-boundadjective Restricted to working in an office, rather than in an active, physical capacity. 做办公室工作的；从事非体力劳动的 his contempt for the desk-bound staff behind the lines 他字里行间毫不掩饰对文职人员的蔑视。 Example sentencesExamples - The Government was trying to reduce the time police spent desk-bound, he said, and by next spring the numbers of officers should be up to 130,000.
- Unfortunately, I'm going to be desk-bound for most of it.
- But the Army medical panel told him that the desk-bound nature of his job as a supply controller meant that he could rely on a further ten years of service.
- That's his euphemism for the paunch so characteristic of many middle-aged, desk-bound executives.
- Things started to tidy up by lunchtime, so I walked another 30 minutes back to the station, rode a still-delayed train to work and put in the usual afternoon's quota of desk-bound confinement.
- More people than ever are swapping their desk-bound jobs for a vocation that enables them to be hands-on, use their brain and be in charge of their own destiny.
- ‘We encourage far too many young people to aspire to desk-bound and managerial careers,’ he said.
- He said only 229 were desk-bound under a new agreement.
- I fear I have years of this ahead of me, as I can't see my career moving away from the desk-bound realm any time soon.
- They believe face-to-face contact is what encourages bright ideas at work, but desk-bound staff no longer talk the way they used to.
- Now, the computer signals a warning to all desk-bound individuals.
- Imagine her frustration, though, as, desk-bound, she watched Lawrence make his famous forays into the desert - all done on her advice.
- This list of office slang may come in handy for all you desk-bound folks.
- At the same time, an active hunting lifestyle is gradually being replaced by sedentary habits, including desk-bound employment.
- The increasing burden of legislation, designed by well meaning but desk-bound bureaucrats, ensured that only the very large could survive, unless they found a niche.
- But she soon gave up her desk-bound job for a life on the ocean waves.
- But union leaders are angry that instead of recalling staff who are off duty to man the cars, or using desk-bound officers, management are taking firefighters off engines.
- Eating them while leading a desk-bound or sofa-dominated life now appears even less useful.
- Operational job losses will be limited to 64 by putting desk-bound staff ‘back on the pumps’.
- Today he said desk-bound senior ranking officers had also embraced the idea of taking to the streets regularly each month.
Synonyms sitting, seated, desk, inactive, still, stationary
Definition of desk-bound in US English: desk-boundadjectiveˈdɛskˌbaʊndˈdeskˌbound Restricted to working in an office, rather than in an active, physical capacity. 做办公室工作的；从事非体力劳动的 he is no desk-bound theoretician Example sentencesExamples - ‘We encourage far too many young people to aspire to desk-bound and managerial careers,’ he said.
- Today he said desk-bound senior ranking officers had also embraced the idea of taking to the streets regularly each month.
- He said only 229 were desk-bound under a new agreement.
- Eating them while leading a desk-bound or sofa-dominated life now appears even less useful.
- More people than ever are swapping their desk-bound jobs for a vocation that enables them to be hands-on, use their brain and be in charge of their own destiny.
- But the Army medical panel told him that the desk-bound nature of his job as a supply controller meant that he could rely on a further ten years of service.
- The Government was trying to reduce the time police spent desk-bound, he said, and by next spring the numbers of officers should be up to 130,000.
- The increasing burden of legislation, designed by well meaning but desk-bound bureaucrats, ensured that only the very large could survive, unless they found a niche.
- Operational job losses will be limited to 64 by putting desk-bound staff ‘back on the pumps’.
- Things started to tidy up by lunchtime, so I walked another 30 minutes back to the station, rode a still-delayed train to work and put in the usual afternoon's quota of desk-bound confinement.
- This list of office slang may come in handy for all you desk-bound folks.
- But she soon gave up her desk-bound job for a life on the ocean waves.
- That's his euphemism for the paunch so characteristic of many middle-aged, desk-bound executives.
- They believe face-to-face contact is what encourages bright ideas at work, but desk-bound staff no longer talk the way they used to.
- At the same time, an active hunting lifestyle is gradually being replaced by sedentary habits, including desk-bound employment.
- Imagine her frustration, though, as, desk-bound, she watched Lawrence make his famous forays into the desert - all done on her advice.
- I fear I have years of this ahead of me, as I can't see my career moving away from the desk-bound realm any time soon.
- But union leaders are angry that instead of recalling staff who are off duty to man the cars, or using desk-bound officers, management are taking firefighters off engines.
- Now, the computer signals a warning to all desk-bound individuals.
- Unfortunately, I'm going to be desk-bound for most of it.
Synonyms sitting, seated, desk, inactive, still, stationary
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