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The phrase "an empty desk" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a desk that has no items on it, often implying a lack of work or presence.
Example: "After the meeting, I returned to my office to find an empty desk, a sign that my colleagues had already left for the day."
Alternatives: "a vacant desk" or "a bare desk".
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Near the counter was an empty desk.
Now what's left is an empty desk.
Now I'm unemployed I can't even rely on my colleagues wondering why there's an empty desk.
Instead, I'll pick an empty desk and go and park myself there.
So here I sit at an empty desk in my home office, wondering what I should do next.
Rather than the British fortnight, people will take long weekends so the boss doesn't see an empty desk.
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I placed the paper on a large empty desk.
We first see Warren Schmidt sitting in his office, the walls stripped of pictures, his files packed in boxes, a briefcase on his empty desk.
Not Wolinski", posting a photo of his empty desk.
On Mr. DeCroce's empty desk on the aisle, a colleague had placed a bouquet of flowers.
A frustrated official theatrically opens his empty desk drawers.
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