card file
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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By the time the Bushes got to the White House and automated the card file, they had a Christmas card list in excess of 10,000 names.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2018
Howe had a huge card file on the delegates who weren’t pledged to Roosevelt, which he hoped to use in order to sway them at key moments.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2016
Every time one of these guys was arrested I made a card file for each of the people who was named in the trial.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2013
Somewhere amid the clutter of his small office is the famous Lyons card file: every time someone is mentioned in his column, the date and a key word or phrase are entered on his card.
From Time Magazine Archive
Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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