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

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

She keeps a file folder at home of “little notes that say ‘hey you made a difference.’”

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2022

Connie was a little cheesed off that I’d lied to her about being into government, but then I handed her a file folder.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen