"front-desk" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "front-desks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "front-desking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "front-desked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "front-desked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "front-desk (third-person singular simple present front-desks, present participle front-desking, simple past and past participle front-desked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Bernard D. Reams, American international law cases. Ser. 3, 1994, 6, page 3208:",
          "text": "The Supreme Court pointed out a possible exception: \"front-desking\" may also produce the concrete effects necessary for a claim to be ripe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, P. J. Patel, Patel's Immigration Law Digest:",
          "text": "Under the Supreme Court's holding, the LULAC stay order survives only for the small group of cases in which aliens were front-desked by the INS in their application for legalization.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Labor Law Reporter Employment Practices:",
          "text": "Moreover, the Government has represented to Federal courts its willingness to accept applications of any alien who alleges he or she was \"front-desked.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Immigration Legislation Handbook, page 8-211:",
          "text": "Under the court's order, front-desked class members may have had the right to file and have the Immigration Service process their amnesty applications, and to be issued or reissued work authorization.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be denied by an INS agent without filing because the officer believes the application invalid at face value."
      ],
      "id": "en-front-desk-en-verb-6wphkow0",
      "links": [
        [
          "denied",
          "denied"
        ],
        [
          "INS",
          "INS"
        ],
        [
          "agent",
          "agent"
        ],
        [
          "filing",
          "file"
        ],
        [
          "invalid",
          "invalid"
        ],
        [
          "face value",
          "face value"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "immigration law",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(immigration law, of a claim for legalization) To be denied by an INS agent without filing because the officer believes the application invalid at face value."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a claim for legalization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "front-desk"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "front-desks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "front-desking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "front-desked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "front-desked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "front-desk (third-person singular simple present front-desks, present participle front-desking, simple past and past participle front-desked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Bernard D. Reams, American international law cases. Ser. 3, 1994, 6, page 3208:",
          "text": "The Supreme Court pointed out a possible exception: \"front-desking\" may also produce the concrete effects necessary for a claim to be ripe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, P. J. Patel, Patel's Immigration Law Digest:",
          "text": "Under the Supreme Court's holding, the LULAC stay order survives only for the small group of cases in which aliens were front-desked by the INS in their application for legalization.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Labor Law Reporter Employment Practices:",
          "text": "Moreover, the Government has represented to Federal courts its willingness to accept applications of any alien who alleges he or she was \"front-desked.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Immigration Legislation Handbook, page 8-211:",
          "text": "Under the court's order, front-desked class members may have had the right to file and have the Immigration Service process their amnesty applications, and to be issued or reissued work authorization.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be denied by an INS agent without filing because the officer believes the application invalid at face value."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "denied",
          "denied"
        ],
        [
          "INS",
          "INS"
        ],
        [
          "agent",
          "agent"
        ],
        [
          "filing",
          "file"
        ],
        [
          "invalid",
          "invalid"
        ],
        [
          "face value",
          "face value"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "immigration law",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(immigration law, of a claim for legalization) To be denied by an INS agent without filing because the officer believes the application invalid at face value."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a claim for legalization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "front-desk"
}