Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) One who spends his or her time seated at a desk; especially one who is more concerned with procedure, paperwork, or administration than with its ultimate goal or practical consequence.
Usage examples of "desk jockey".
This was her revenge on Russell Slade: to take the desk jockey into the warrens, get him muddy, let him see the face of the enemy, and, if she were lucky, have him stare death in the eye.
The guy was typical desk jockey meat, short, stupid and inefficient, with some sort of birth defect that made him look like a crocodile: green skin, bumps, pointy teeth and all.
But he had a feeling -- a certainty, actually -- that some desk jockey back at high command wouldn't see it that way.
His brief and terrible stint as a desk jockey with an insurance company in Kansas City had proven that he would never be a nine-to-fiver.
Seagram said, uneasy in the knowledge that his service record was where any desk jockey in the Pentagon could lay his hands on it.
The guy was about ten years younger, four inches shorter, and forty pounds heavier than Jamieson, with broad, knobby shoulders, thick arms, and weight lifter-like thighs and calves--a former college power lifter turned desk jockey who liked to hang out at the weight machines on occasion, Jamieson decided--with thin blond hair and a fairly new mustache, both a bit longer than the regs allowed and definitely a lot longer than the current crew-cut style common in the late-nineties military.