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Filing

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Noun

1. filing

the entering of a legal document into the public record

Example Sentences:
'he filed a complaint'
'he filed his tax return'

2. filing

a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file

3. filing

the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)

4. filing

preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.

Example Sentences:
'I have some filing to do'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Filing

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noun
1. 
the work of filing documents
2. US
something that is filed
3. US
a submission to a court or other authority
In court filings, they argued that the settlement was inadequate.
The warning was contained in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Filing

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noun
a small piece, as of metal, scraped off with a file
usually used in pl.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Filing

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n.
1. A container, such as a cabinet or folder, for keeping papers in order.
2. A collection of papers or published materials kept or arranged in convenient order.
3. Computers A collection of data or program records stored as a unit with a single name.
4.
a. A line of persons, animals, or things positioned one behind the other.
b. A line of troops or military vehicles so positioned.
5. Games Any of the rows of squares that run forward and backward between players on a playing board in chess or checkers.
6. Archaic A list or roll.
v. filed, fil·ing, files
v.tr.
1. To put or keep (papers, for example) in useful order for storage or reference.
2. To enter (a legal document) as an official record.
3. To send or submit (copy) to a newspaper.
4. To initiate (a lawsuit): file a complaint; file charges.
v.intr.
1. To march or walk in a line.
2. To put items in a file.
3. To make application; apply: filed for a job with the state; file for a divorce.
4. To enter one's name in a political contest: filed for Congress.
n.
An official document that is filed with a court, government agency, or other legal or political institution.
n.
1. Any of several hardened steel tools with cutting ridges for forming, smoothing, or reducing especially metallic surfaces.
2. A nail file.
3. Chiefly British A crafty or artful person.
tr.v. filed, fil·ing, files
To smooth, reduce, or remove with or as if with a file.
n.
1. The act or an instance of using a file.
2. A particle or shaving removed by a file: metal filings.
tr.v. filed, fil·ing, files
Archaic
To sully or defile.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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