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file folder

American

noun

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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Noun Inflected Forms

file folders

plural

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file folder

"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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

Ms. Blackburn was barred from the university’s supercomputing cluster — with her file folder labeled “Bitcoin,” she was suspected of mining the cryptocurrency.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

Then he pulled open the deep drawer on the bottom left, and took out a new file folder.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements

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