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Working in office of the French king, jump to it!
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deskbound
Word definitions for deskbound in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity [syn: desk-bound ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context of an employee English) Whose work confines him or her to a desk.
Usage examples of deskbound.
He was the perfect bureaucrat, evasive, deskbound, a man who thought in terms of constraints and methodologies.
Even those whose normal duties saw them completely deskbound had weapons in hand, and their training had been such that they knew how to use them.
His life meant more as a pilot and squadron commander than it would as a deskbound planner.
Wolf under the eyes of a deskbound rabbit who preferred his adventure safely secondhand.
The last words his superior, General GlUcks, had spoken to him in Madrid in late November virtually robbed him of any freedom of action, but like most deskbound men he found comfort in delaying the inevitable.
Without his own ship, he was planetbound and deskbound, responsible to a bureaucracy rather than to a quest for exploration and knowledge.
Perhaps he could not reclaim the Enterprise--but at the very least, he would force Nogura to make good his promise that Kirk would be a diplomatic trouble shooter, not a deskbound bureaucrat.
Specimen of young deskbound Naval intelligence executive: coarse-minded, clean-cut, a gentleman to the ignorant eye.