desk-bound
- s restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity
- Nikita himself launched an attack on Moscow's desk-bound administrators.
- Though some desk-bound bureaucrats are beginning to be laid off, a far greater number of lineworkerspolicemen, firemen, teachershave been dismissed.
- FBI negotiator Jeffrey Jamar, who recommended the plan to end the siege with a tear gas assault, challenged a cult lawyer's assertion that "some desk-bound bureaucrat in Washington .