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n. 1 The desk at which newspaper copy is edited. 2 The staff responsible for editing copy.
Usage examples of "copy desk".
He seated himself at the copy desk and started to clean the quill he had abandoned when he had heard the wagon bells.
That astute person glanced at them for information and sent them on to the copy desk, whence they were shot down into that noisy, chaotic wilderness, the composing room.
He was frenetic to a fault, dashing from phone to typewriter to copy desk in a blur—.
He was frenetic to a fault, dashing from phone to typewriter to copy desk in a bluryet he was different from most of his colleagues.
He acknowledged Shirley with the I'll-call-'em-back signal, threw his hat on the copy desk, sat down, and looked at D.
I slid open the hatch of the incinerator and started tossing down bottles and glasses from the copy desk, the morgue, the Mbertype.
Carmady went through the doors, past a horseshoe copy desk, then past a row of small desks at which typewriters were being banged.
It took her over a year to get onto the copy desk of the _Constitution_, a period she'd spent selling kitchen appliances at Sears.