front desk

noun

: the desk in a building where visitors are greeted

We checked into the hotel at the front desk.

Examples of front desk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There’s a front desk manned with helpful staff members and a lobby bar serving champagne cocktails, but there aren’t many additional amenities. —

Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024 Over the Labor Day weekend, unionized front desk workers, housekeepers and other employees at two dozen hotels in cities across the U.S. walked off the job after contract negotiations broke down. —

Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024 Some 15,000 workers, ranging from front desk clerks to back of house laundry staff, are demanding higher wages, better workloads and a return to pre-pandemic staffing at various Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Omni hotels. —

Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024 No front desk, no check-in, no checkout, no restaurants, no schedule…. —

Ann Abel, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for front desk

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