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FILE IN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does file in mean?
• FILE IN (verb)
The verb FILE IN has 1 sense:
1. enter by marching in a file
Familiarity information: FILE IN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enter by marching in a file
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "file in" is one way to...):
come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
file out (march out, in a file)
Context examples
A single digital file in the Electronic Content material.
(Content Item, NCI Thesaurus)
The article had been published, as he had ascertained at the file in the Central Reading-room, but no word could he get from the editor.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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