filed

Verb

file (third-person singular simple present files, present participle filing, simple past and past participle filed)

1. (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
   • She filed their accounts yesterday.
   1. (intransitive, transitive) To submit a formal request to some office.
      • She filed for divorce the next day.
2. (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
   • I filed my copy soon after the interview.
3. (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
   • Troves of documents filed away in the depository.
4. (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
   • I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed.1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii

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