file folder

American  

noun

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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Example Sentences

"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

According to the officials, a person handing the playing of the national anthems accidentally chose the protesters’ song saved in a computer file folder named “Hong Kong.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022

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

The two attorneys met investigators there in June, giving them a taped-up file folder containing 38 documents collected in response to the subpoena.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2022

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