file folder

American  

noun

• file folders
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• file folders
  plural

Example Sentences

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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

Investigators, who handle about 200 cases yearly, are given a manila file folder containing a name, birthdate and little else for each death.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

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

They later found that name in the file folder for Ms. Hover’s case.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2021

I look through the glass door, and I can see my file folder there on the corner of the card table, my time line, and the lists of stuff in my room.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements