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Rolodex

[roh-luh-deks]

Trademark.
  1. a small desktop file containing cards for names, addresses, and phone numbers.



Rolodex

/ ˈrəʊləˌdɛks /

noun

  1. a small file for holding names, addresses, and telephone numbers, consisting of cards attached horizontally to a rotatable central cylinder

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Today he has a Rolodex of A-list directors that would make many talent agents envious.

Linklater, shooting en français with subtitles, whisks characters past the lens so fast that your mental Rolodex is full in 15 minutes.

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Poitras takes viewers inside Hersh’s process: the notebooks crammed with barely decipherable shorthand, the Rolodexes packed with names and numbers, the long calls coaxing sources to talk.

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It’s a practice that has remained a major part of her creative Rolodex.

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Some casting directors post notices on social media, while others mine their Rolodex to find homeowners or buyers to feature, since some of these shows shoot in the general geographic area where the hosts work.

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