Hired space for a single person in a business office.
1870. Many of the operators, as well as the smaller brokers who act principally for other houses, and are styled 1-32 and 1-64 men, have simply desk-room.—James K. Medbery, ‘Men and Mysteries of Wall Street,’ p. 117 (Boston).
1910. “Don’t you lose time by living in Jersey?” “Not much,” answered the Wall Street man. “I have desk room on a ferryboat.”—Louisville Courier-Journal, May.
