desk officer

1. 1.

   a military officer who is not assigned to active duty

   Broadermilitary officer

   military

Questions about desk officer

What does desk officer mean?

desk officer means "a military officer who is not assigned to active duty".

Is desk officer a common word?

desk officer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.