desk officer
- n a military officer who is not assigned to active duty
depression
- n a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- n a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- n a sunken or depressed geological formation
- n sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- n a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
- n an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- n a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- n a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- n angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- n pushing down
depression of the space bar on the typewriter