city desk

1. 1.

   the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news

   Synonymscity room

   Broadereditorial department

Questions about city desk

What does city desk mean?

city desk means "the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news".

What is another word for city desk?

Close synonyms include city room. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is city desk a common word?

city desk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.