What is the meaning of Desk?

A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.

A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.

Short for mixing desk.

A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.

To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

To equip with a desk or desks.

To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.

Alternative form of dosk

Source: wiktionary.org