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FILING CABINET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does filing cabinet mean?
• FILING CABINET (noun)
The noun FILING CABINET has 1 sense:
1. office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
Familiarity information: FILING CABINET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
file; file cabinet; filing cabinet
Hypernyms ("filing cabinet" is a kind of...):
office furniture (furniture intended for use in an office)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filing cabinet"):
card catalog; card catalogue; card index (an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item)
vertical file (a file in which records are stored upright on one edge)
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