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filing system

n. (alternative spelling of file system English)

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filing system

n. a system of classifying into files (usually arranged alphabetically) [syn: file system]

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Filing system

Filing system may refer to:

  • Filing cabinet, a piece of office furniture
  • File system, a method of storing and organizing computer files and their data

Usage examples of "filing system".

This was harder than it looked because more than half of the snooker table served as the Archchancellors filing system,* and indeed to get to the hole the ball had to pass through several piles of paperwork, a tankard, a skull with a dribbly candle on it and a lot of pipe ash.

If he could get hold of the key to the filing system, he thought he could maybe find the paper he wanted.

Z's filing system may have been makeshift, but he sure knew where everything was.

Why don't we go grab a sandwich and you can brief me on the new filing system over lunch?

They were supposed to get to the central filing system before the operators had a chance to destroy it.

Like everybody in the entourage of the President, he was aware of the inadvisability of crossing the soft-voiced civil servant who had the ear of the President at all times and a private filing system of intimate information about which more was feared than was known.

Then the lids drooped, the shutter closed over the X-ray, and Mr Goldfinger took the exposed plate and slipped it away in his filing system.