file cabinet

noun

US
: a piece of furniture that is used for storing documents so that they can be found easily

Examples of file cabinet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web According to the estimate, Moving Giants expected to move two queen size beds, two dressers, a four-drawer file cabinet, one medium-sized tent and 25 boxes. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024 If your home office is tight on space, check out this compact file cabinet that’s 50 percent off. Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023 A week later each pair of kids was left unsupervised in a room that held a variety of toys, games and a file cabinet. Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 18 July 2023 The Rivers archive includes a file cabinet containing over 65,000 original jokes, spanning from the start of her career. Marianne Garvey, CNN, 9 June 2023 In February 2020, 53 years later, he was tracked down and notified that his wallet had been found behind a file cabinet in Antarctica. Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023

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“File cabinet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/file%20cabinet. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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