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file in

vb. (context intransitive English) To enter in single file.

WordNet
file in

v. enter by marching in a file [ant: file out]

Usage examples of "file in".

I've agreed to begin the process, and will file in Family Court today.

She tucked the file in her bag, snagged the jacket from the back of her chair, and headed out.

There is a fat security file in Peking with your name on it, and a black ribbon across it.

A small fragment of knowledge to be added to the immense file in the archives, but vital, for the file into which that dispatch from one of his agents in Cairo would be added was the file on the rockets of Helwan.

With a legend saying that any unauthorized person not named on this label finding the file in his possession must at once return it unopened to Banking Section.

No birth certificate on file in any state, no tax records either state or federal.

By the time Francis had completed four years at the College of Saint John and the Holy Ghost (irreverently called Spook by all students and by faculty members when they were not obliged to be on their best behaviour) in the University of Toronto, the file in Colonel John Copplestone's study was a fat one, and there was an additional file, not so fat, in which the Colonel's old friend and an honoured member of the profession who simply signed himself J.

The pages flipped again and kept flipping, like a rotary card file in a high wind.

Using the genetic records on file in villes, Lakesh selected candidates for his rebellion, but finding them and recruiting them were not the same thing.

So there I was - Colonel Harry Paget Flashman, late of the 11th Hussars, 17th Lancers and the Staff, former aide to the Commander-in-Chief, and now acting-sowar and rear file in the skirmishing squadron, 3rd Cavalry, Bengal Army, and if you think it was a mad-brained train of circumstance that had taken me there - well, so did I.

Even before my Powerbook crashed and obliterated my big file in July 1995, there had been danger signs.

Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head.