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attaché case

noun

Definition of attaché casenext
as in traveling bag

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attaché case
  1. overnight bag
  2. briefcase
  3. wallet
  4. valise
  5. portmanteau
  6. duffel bag
  7. handbag
  8. kit bag
Noun
  • One of them invites Bonnie over for a sleepover, and Jessie sneaks into her overnight bag, not realizing that toys are verboten to the new generation.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 June 2026
  • Officers told the children to pack an overnight bag.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
Definition of overnight bag
Noun
  • Wayne picks Gregory up at a motel, in Mobile, Alabama, and hands him a briefcase containing, among other things, a gun.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Everyone has the late-night parking garage and the briefcase full of cash in their pocket.
    — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of briefcase
Noun
  • So will Mother Nature and your wallet, with zero emissions and zero fuel costs.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • In July 2026, for example, average airfares were nearly 26% more expensive than in July 2025, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics—a significant hit to travelers’ wallets.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of wallet
Noun
  • But in Vienna, Pollak kept a mistress, and Milena had to take a job porting valises at the train station just to make ends meet.
    — Christine Estima September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That a kindly bellhop from The Balmoral, our hotel adjacent to the station, loaded our valises off a trolley cart did little to rein in these trappings.
    — Ross Kenneth Urken, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2024
Definition of valise
Noun
  • Indianapolis’ prevailing portmanteau is back in circulation as downtown’s annual hip-hop festival returns.
    — Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The name Phia is a portmanteau of the founders’ names Phoebe and Sophia.
    — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of portmanteau
Noun
  • One of the rescuers gets close to the canine and takes him into his arms before placing him in a duffel bag.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Surveillance footage shows Ruis snatching the $275 bauble, which was attached to a $3,500 Alo Odyssey duffel bag, and wrapping it in a tissue before stuffing it into his pocket, according to a criminal complaint and law enforcement sources.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of duffel bag
Noun
  • Elsewhere, a pumpkin handbag, from Louis Vuitton’s collaboration with the late Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, has already exceeded auction estimates, with a current top bid of 39,000 Singapore dollars ($31,000) at the time of publication.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Coach got its start in New York in 1941 making leather goods, before growing into a $7 billion global business spanning handbags, ready-to-wear, footwear and more.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of handbag
Noun
  • Given this expanding electronic kit bag, various stakeholders—from government agencies to local police, under the pretext of public safety—perpetuate the systemized encroachment on citizens’ private worlds.
    — David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Road closures have been seizing the country’s leafy capital, as vans disgorge military style kit bags and American personnel to match at top hotels.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of kit bag
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“Attaché case.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attach%C3%A9%20case. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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