on file

1. In or as if in a record for easy reference. For example, There's no job open right now, but we'll keep your résumé on file. The use of file in the sense of “a collection of papers stored for ready reference” dates from the early 1600s.

Example Sentences

A second charge of unauthorised computer access was ordered to lie on file.

From BBC

"Those documents exist, they will be on file... it's inconceivable they would not have been shown concerns raised by the security services through the vetting process," he told BBC Breakfast.

From BBC

The plans included running all phone-based requests for bank account changes against a Treasury Department database of suspicious accounts and analyzing such calls to verify whether they were being made from the vicinity of the address on file of the person purportedly calling.

From Salon

The Crown Prosecution Service indicated it would not proceed with the kidnap charges against the pair and that those alleged offences would lie on file.

From BBC

We want to urge anyone who thinks they should have had information on file to phone our helpline.

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