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Desk job

noun, slang

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  1. 1
    An employment position in which one remains mostly seated at a desk, performing routine office work. informal

    "For 13 months in 1966 and '67 Corson served as commander of 3,500 men in 114 platoons spread out in hamlets across five provinces in South Viet Nam. . . . In 1968 Corson was reassigned to a desk job at the Pentagon."

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