sports desk
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3.2
- noun
- /spɔrts dɛsk/
- Literature
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redacción deportiva
- She started her career as an intern in the sports desk, where she learned how to write articles about various sports.
And then by the time I got to it, I turned it in like a week before the World Cup and like the time sports desk was all in in in Qatar.
- And then by the time I got to it, I turned it in like a week before the World Cup and like the time sports desk was all in in in Qatar.
Examples
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Unlike the way news coverage is handled around the state (for the most part), as a general rule, sports desks around the state/region are notorious for sharing information and stories and photos with their colleagues.
Blog text (4) -
God made the Post sports desk at night, grad school at Rice during the day, but he told Ellen to go, that he'd take some vacation and stay with Tess while she was gone.
Fiction book (1990) -
Sometimes the sports desk gets it right.
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And then by the time I got to it, I turned it in like a week before the World Cup and like the time sports desk was all in in in Qatar.
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From the D&Z sports desk, I'm Dennis Phillippi, and the answer... -
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It's Action News at 5:00 with Tom Daley and Barbara Spade, Harv Kent at the sports desk and Skip Kirschner with weather.
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The sports desk at the newspaper covered the championship game extensively.
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After the match, the reporters at the sports desk gathered to discuss the highlights.
Synonyms
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3.2
A group of people who work for a newspaper or TV station to gather, write, and edit news
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1.4
The part of a newspaper or magazine with news about sports
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1.3
A page in a newspaper or magazine with news and results about sports
How Large
- Literature
12
1.4
- Literature
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3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
sport + desk
The meaning is largely compositional—'sports' + 'desk' denotes the desk/department handling sports coverage—but it relies on the specialized newsroom sense of 'desk' (an editorial unit) rather than the literal furniture sense. That institutional meaning may not be fully predictable to an average B1 learner who only knows the basic sense of 'desk', so the MWE is partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Sports desk comes from newsrooms where reporters who cover sports sat at one desk to write game reports and check scores. That's why sports desk now means 'the part of a newspaper or news team that handles sports stories'.