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briefcaseful

briefcaseful noun: enough to fill a briefcase.

Noun

briefcaseful (plural briefcasefuls)

  1. Enough to fill a briefcase.
    • Like how his father not only had worked long hours at the Midland Pacific Railroad and read aloud to his children and done the yard work and home maintenance and processed a nightly briefcaseful of executive paper but had also found time to operate a serious metallurgical laboratory in the family...2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of briefcaseful

pluralbriefcasefuls

Origin of briefcaseful

From briefcase + -ful.

Questions about briefcaseful

What does briefcaseful mean?
Briefcaseful means enough to fill a briefcase.
What part of speech is briefcaseful?
Briefcaseful is a noun.
What is the plural of briefcaseful?
The plural of briefcaseful is briefcasefuls.

Words near briefcaseful in the dictionary

  1. briefbacks
  2. briefcase
  3. briefcase computer
  4. briefcase computers
  5. briefcased
  6. briefcaseful
  7. briefcasefuls
  8. briefcases
  9. briefe
  10. briefed
  11. briefed against

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