desk sergeant

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   the police sergeant on duty in a police station

   Synonymsdeskmanstation keeper

   Broaderpolice sergeant

Questions about desk sergeant

What does desk sergeant mean?

desk sergeant means "the police sergeant on duty in a police station".

What is another word for desk sergeant?

Close synonyms include deskman, station keeper. 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 desk sergeant a common word?

desk sergeant 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.