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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
filing cabinet
noun
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▪ But he had never noticed her eyes in a moment such as this: as grey and hard as any filing cabinet.
▪ Crashing and echoing, the filing cabinet toppled end-over-end down the stairs as the thing heaved itself through the door aperture.
▪ It is rather like an empty filing cabinet waiting for the files to go in.
▪ The Chief of Immigration then locked his filing cabinet and announced that Nina and I were wanted upstairs in another office.
▪ They fell down the back of a filing cabinet.
Wiktionary
filing cabinet

n. A piece of office furniture comprised of drawers or shelves sized to standard file folder widths, traditionally used for storing documents in order.

WordNet
filing cabinet

n. office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order [syn: file, file cabinet]

Wikipedia
Filing cabinet

A filing cabinet (or sometimes file cabinet in American English) is a piece of office furniture usually used to store paper documents in file folders. In the most simple context, it is an enclosure for drawers in which items are stored. The two most common forms of filing cabinets are vertical files and lateral files. A vertical file cabinet has drawers that extend from the short side (typically 15 inches) of the cabinet. A lateral file cabinet has drawers that extend from the long side (various lengths) of the cabinet. These are also called side filers in Great Britain. There are also shelf files, which go on shelves. In the United States, file cabinets are usually built to accommodate 8.5 × 11 paper, and in other countries, filing cabinets are often designed to hold other sizes of paper, such as A4 paper.

Usage examples of "filing cabinet".

As Attorney Alejandro promised, an extension cord has been plugged into a wall outlet near the cellblock entrance and run down the passageway and securely knotted around a pipe out of Randy's reach and the tail end of it allowed to trail across in the direction of the filing cabinet.

Smithback narrowed his eyes, strode over to a filing cabinet, pulled on a drawer.

It was a large, well-lit, but very bleak room, the two main items of furniture being a massive table by the window on the far wall and, on the table, an almost equally massive transceiver in gleaming metal: apart from two chairs and a filing cabinet the room held nothing else, not even as much as a carpet to cover the floorboards.

He identified the type of filing cabinet and he's opened three of them since then.

Your man said we'll be able to pick up a whole network with the stuff we'll get out of that filing cabinet across the road.

He unlocked the filing cabinet and removed the surveillance camera.

His eyes darted to an intercom phone atop a filing cabinet just out of reach.

The face on the extreme right of the picture, the one with the big nose, meant nothing to him, but the other three faces rang a bell in his filing cabinet of a memory.

It contained a cute little desk, three chairs, and a filing cabinet with a lock to which I had been given the key.

Parker now arranged the eight people so that Lavenstein was just to the left of this pipe, facing the filing cabinet, the others made a circle, all facing outward, and Garrison, the other end of the line, was just to the right of the pipe, facing toward the windows.