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

Then he pulled open the deep drawer on the bottom left, and took out a new file folder.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements