in-basket
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of in-basket
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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"I think he was a fine man, but he was an in-basket president," Merry says.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2018
Second, it helps to put everything in an in-basket until you have time to make a decision.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2012
After coming back from a meeting, put all of your notes in your in-basket.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2012
THE sole purpose of my in-basket this week seems to be to goad me into looking at fashion from the Cannes Film Festival.
From New York Times • May 20, 2011
An orthogonal factor matrix composed of the first ten factors was rotated to form an oblique matrix having a factor structure as nearly as possible like that found for the original in-basket factor analysis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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