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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 orderplay

  Familiarity information: FILING CABINET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FILING CABINET (noun)


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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