FILE AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does file away mean? 

• FILE AWAY (verb)
  The verb FILE AWAY has 2 senses:

1. place in a container for keeping records

2. put into an archive

  Familiarity information: FILE AWAY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILE AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place in a container for keeping records

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

file; file away

Context example:

File these bills, please

Hypernyms (to "file away" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put into an archive

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

archive; file away

Hypernyms (to "file away" is one way to...):

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They file away the newspapers