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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

I started a Google Doc tracking every letter, email and phone call; a physical file folder, soon bulging, kept everything in one place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2022

In one overstuffed file folder I also happened upon some of the “favorite book” lists I used to collect.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

I produced these from the black file folder in which I’d been carrying them.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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