file folder

American  

noun

1. a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.

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Example Sentences

"I took the crumpled sheets, smoothed them out, read the crazy leaping lines, smiled to myself at the leaps that never landed and then put the sheets into a file folder," he added.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2025

Investigators, who handle about 200 cases yearly, are given a manila file folder containing a name, birthdate and little else for each death.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

The signed document said the file folder being handed over contained “all documents that are responsive to the subpoena.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2022

I grabbed a file folder and in large black permanent marker wrote “Make the seat.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022

Both ran back to the files and pulled out a file folder fat with papers and documents.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg