Cubicle
noun
A small separate area in a room, often separated by a wall or screen, used for work or privacy.
In the office, each employee has their own cubicle where they can do their work.
Often appears as...
- office cubicle
- bathroom cubicle
noun
A private area for a specific purpose such as changing clothes or taking a shower, often located in a public place.
After swimming, you can change your clothes in a cubicle.
Often appears as...
- changing cubicle
- shower cubicle
noun
A small area set off by walls for special use like storing products in a warehouse.
The merchandise is stored in a cubicle in the warehouse.
Often appears as...
- storage cubicle
- warehouse cubicle
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Technical
noun
A small separate area in a room, often separated by a wall or screen, used for work or privacy.
In the office, each employee has their own cubicle where they can do their work.
Often appears as...
- office cubicle
- bathroom cubicle
noun
A private area for a specific purpose such as changing clothes or taking a shower, often located in a public place.
After swimming, you can change your clothes in a cubicle.
Often appears as...
- changing cubicle
- shower cubicle
noun
A small area set off by walls for special use like storing products in a warehouse.
The merchandise is stored in a cubicle in the warehouse.
Often appears as...
- storage cubicle
- warehouse cubicle
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Work Privacy
Cubicles offer a personal space in open-plan offices, allowing for privacy amidst a larger workspace.
Please knock on my cubicle wall before entering.
Pro Tip 2/3Decor Personalization
Workers often personalize their cubicles with items like photos or plants to make them feel homier.
She decorated her office cubicle with family pictures and a small succulent.
Pro Tip 3/3Pop Culture
Cubicles are common settings in movies and TV shows that depict office life, sometimes with a humoristic tone.
The TV show portrayed the character's drab cubicle life with satirical wit.
Pro Tip 1/3Work Privacy
Cubicles offer a personal space in open-plan offices, allowing for privacy amidst a larger workspace.
Please knock on my cubicle wall before entering.
Pro Tip 2/3Decor Personalization
Workers often personalize their cubicles with items like photos or plants to make them feel homier.
She decorated her office cubicle with family pictures and a small succulent.
Pro Tip 3/3Pop Culture
Cubicles are common settings in movies and TV shows that depict office life, sometimes with a humoristic tone.
The TV show portrayed the character's drab cubicle life with satirical wit.
Pro Tip 1/3Work Privacy
Cubicles offer a personal space in open-plan offices, allowing for privacy amidst a larger workspace.
Please knock on my cubicle wall before entering.
Pro Tip 2/3Decor Personalization
Workers often personalize their cubicles with items like photos or plants to make them feel homier.
She decorated her office cubicle with family pictures and a small succulent.
Pro Tip 3/3Pop Culture
Cubicles are common settings in movies and TV shows that depict office life, sometimes with a humoristic tone.
The TV show portrayed the character's drab cubicle life with satirical wit.
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David Kelley: The future...
which sounded like a fun thing and so we couldn't pass it up. He's always been interested in technology in the future. Scott I realized that at some point I might be the world's expert on what's wrong with cubicles. So we thought, well, wouldn't it be fun to get together with some of the smartest design guys in the world
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What happens when a...
and this is afterwards. Same cubicles, same people, just a better system for everyone. At one point, we wanted to celebrate modernizing a different system, and so we went to a local grocery store and we said, "Can you make a cake and decorate it with the form that we've digitized?"
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How risk-taking changes...
Using the computer cubicles in my school library, I had them complete a computerized decision-making simulation to measure their risk-taking behaviors comparable to ones in the real world, like alcohol use, drug use and gambling. Wearing the EEG headset,
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Military robots and the...
but they're afraid to fight, so we just have to kill a few of their soldiers to defeat them." The future of war also is featuring a new type of warrior, and it's actually redefining the experience of going to war. You can call this a cubicle warrior.
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Cocaine Subs PIPE National...
devoted the past three years of his life hunting Colombia's drug sons we're down here where the crew of the four-man crew is living and working eight to ten days the size here for these four individuals is about the size of an office cubicle
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Science in service to...
Palchinsky's view on technocrats is very different from one that is still very popular, still very common -- that of a dispassionate researcher working in his ivory tower lab, or a nerdy engineer working in his cubicle. Brilliant, no doubt,
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The power of introverts...
the first Apple computer sitting alone in his cubicle and hewlett-packard where he was working at the time and he says that he never would have become such an expert in the first place had he not been too introverted to leave the house
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What are animals...
never think about the consequences. When we welcome new human life into the world, we welcome our babies into the company of other creatures. We paint animals on the walls. We don't paint cell phones. We don't paint work cubicles.
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Why you should know how...
How much do you think the person sitting next to you gets paid? Again, don't answer out loud. At work, how much do you think the person sitting in the cubicle or the desk next to you gets paid? Do you know? Should you know?
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My son was a Columbine...
and whenever I could, I talked with those who had survived their own suicidal crisis or attempt. One of the most helpful conversations I had was with a coworker who overheard me talking to someone else in my office cubicle.
Video examples
David Kelley: The future...
which sounded like a fun thing and so we couldn't pass it up. He's always been interested in technology in the future. Scott I realized that at some point I might be the world's expert on what's wrong with cubicles. So we thought, well, wouldn't it be fun to get together with some of the smartest design guys in the world
Video examples
What happens when a...
and this is afterwards. Same cubicles, same people, just a better system for everyone. At one point, we wanted to celebrate modernizing a different system, and so we went to a local grocery store and we said, "Can you make a cake and decorate it with the form that we've digitized?"
Video examples
How risk-taking changes...
Using the computer cubicles in my school library, I had them complete a computerized decision-making simulation to measure their risk-taking behaviors comparable to ones in the real world, like alcohol use, drug use and gambling. Wearing the EEG headset,
Video examples
Military robots and the...
but they're afraid to fight, so we just have to kill a few of their soldiers to defeat them." The future of war also is featuring a new type of warrior, and it's actually redefining the experience of going to war. You can call this a cubicle warrior.
Video examples
Cocaine Subs PIPE National...
devoted the past three years of his life hunting Colombia's drug sons we're down here where the crew of the four-man crew is living and working eight to ten days the size here for these four individuals is about the size of an office cubicle
Video examples
Science in service to...
Palchinsky's view on technocrats is very different from one that is still very popular, still very common -- that of a dispassionate researcher working in his ivory tower lab, or a nerdy engineer working in his cubicle. Brilliant, no doubt,
Video examples
The power of introverts...
the first Apple computer sitting alone in his cubicle and hewlett-packard where he was working at the time and he says that he never would have become such an expert in the first place had he not been too introverted to leave the house
Video examples
What are animals...
never think about the consequences. When we welcome new human life into the world, we welcome our babies into the company of other creatures. We paint animals on the walls. We don't paint cell phones. We don't paint work cubicles.
Video examples
Why you should know how...
How much do you think the person sitting next to you gets paid? Again, don't answer out loud. At work, how much do you think the person sitting in the cubicle or the desk next to you gets paid? Do you know? Should you know?
Video examples
My son was a Columbine...
and whenever I could, I talked with those who had survived their own suicidal crisis or attempt. One of the most helpful conversations I had was with a coworker who overheard me talking to someone else in my office cubicle.
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Jacky Rosen
American Politician
The first thing I tell women is this: They think that coding or being in any computer field is very solitary, very solemn, that you're just set off in a cubicle somewhere and it's not social and it's not creative. I would tell them that it's the furthest from the truth.
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Kevin P. Ryan
American Businessman
I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.
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Noel Fielding
English Comedian
Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can't get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, 'Am I having fun?
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Bobby Berk
American Designer
A plant is the most cliche thing, but a little bit of green has a great effect on happiness. Being at a cubicle all day is not pleasing, but a little life on your desk can give you a little life, too.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
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Gene Luen Yang
Chinese Writer
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
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Enzo Amore
American Musician
You can't put a cubicle on Enzo Amore. You can't put a cubicle around Eric Arndt.
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Margaret Heffernan
American Businesswoman
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
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Scarlett Bordeaux
American Wrestler
I can't work in a cubicle in an office.
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Lucky Blue Smith
American Model
I will never work in a cubicle.
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Jacky Rosen
American Politician
The first thing I tell women is this: They think that coding or being in any computer field is very solitary, very solemn, that you're just set off in a cubicle somewhere and it's not social and it's not creative. I would tell them that it's the furthest from the truth.
Quote examples
Kevin P. Ryan
American Businessman
I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.
Quote examples
Noel Fielding
English Comedian
Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can't get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, 'Am I having fun?
Quote examples
Bobby Berk
American Designer
A plant is the most cliche thing, but a little bit of green has a great effect on happiness. Being at a cubicle all day is not pleasing, but a little life on your desk can give you a little life, too.
Quote examples
Jill Lepore
American Historian
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
Quote examples
Gene Luen Yang
Chinese Writer
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
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Enzo Amore
American Musician
You can't put a cubicle on Enzo Amore. You can't put a cubicle around Eric Arndt.
Quote examples
Margaret Heffernan
American Businesswoman
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
Quote examples
Scarlett Bordeaux
American Wrestler
I can't work in a cubicle in an office.
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Lucky Blue Smith
American Model
I will never work in a cubicle.
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