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filing cabinets

filing cabinets is the plural of filing cabinet.

Meaning of filing cabinet

Noun

filing cabinet (plural filing cabinets)

  1. A piece of office furniture composed of drawers or shelves sized to standard file folder widths, traditionally used for storing documents in order.
    • [...] adjacent is a clerk's room, with filing cabinets.1960 December, “New G.E. diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767
    Synonyms:
    file cabinet, file

Questions about filing cabinets

What is filing cabinets the plural of?
Filing cabinets is the plural of filing cabinet.

Words near filing cabinets in the dictionary

  1. filin
  2. filindeu
  3. filing
  4. filing away
  5. filing cabinet
  6. filing cabinets
  7. filing clerk
  8. filing clerks
  9. filing down
  10. filing fee
  11. filing fees

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