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desks

/dɛsks/
Visual illustration of desks: A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
noun

A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.

Visual illustration of desks: A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.
noun

A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.