Definition of "front desk" [front desk]

• The reception of an office or a hotel. (noun)

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• "With two empty hours on my hands, I wandered down the hall to the front desk where Ted, the para-legal worker, rattled away on his Selectric."
• "The front desk relayed to Neil the urgent need to call the Manned Spacecraft Center."
• "I put it in an 8-by-11 campaign envelope addressed to Jody and left it, marked, “Personal,” at the front desk of the hotel."