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card file

British  

noun

  1. another term for card index

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Atlanta University's Rufus Clement keeps a card file near his desk on every U.S.

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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