FILE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does file out mean? 

• FILE OUT (verb)
  The verb FILE OUT has 1 sense:

1. march out, in a file

  Familiarity information: FILE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

March out, in a file

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

file in (enter by marching in a file)

 Context examples 

Mr. Rivers came up as, having seen the classes, now numbering sixty girls, file out before me, and locked the door, I stood with the key in my hand, exchanging a few words of special farewell with some half-dozen of my best scholars: as decent, respectable, modest, and well-informed young women as could be found in the ranks of the British peasantry.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)