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card file

British

noun

another term for card index

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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

General Calderon published photographs of arms caches; Commandant Barres told of radio transmitters, a card file containing names, personal characteristics, technical aptitudes of all Germans in the district.

From Time Magazine Archive

This morning I began sorting out an index card file from the office, because it’d fallen over and gotten all mixed up.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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