"deskful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: deskfuls [plural], desksful [plural]
Etymology: desk + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|desk|ful|pos=noun}} desk + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|s|desksful}} deskful (plural deskfuls or desksful)
  1. The amount that a desk will hold.
    Sense id: en-deskful-en-noun-9WoEqoDH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1947, Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Proceedings",
          "text": "So far as you know, after Ribbentrop had received this deskful of complaints from the Vatican, which he neither read nor acknowledged, did Ribbentrop take any steps or do anything to find out whether those complaints were justified and true, or did he not?",
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          "ref": "2002, Bożena Shallcross, Framing the Polish Home",
          "text": "And why have so many pages, tons, desksful of pages, been written, if I can only babble as though I were the first to emerge from the loam onto the shores of the ocean?",
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          "ref": "2006, Richard Benson, The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside",
          "text": "If you were to pull back further to see all of Europe you might find at the end of those roads bold new headquarters of chemical companies which employed deskfuls of economists to monitor subsidy payments and adjust pricing in accordance with any change in them, and laboratoryfuls of people working on genetic modifications which would allow their employers to patent seeds themselves.",
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          "ref": "1947, Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Proceedings",
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