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filing out

filing out is the present participle and gerund of file out.

Meaning of file out

Verb

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

  1. To exit in one or more single file lines.
    • The recruits filed out of the hall.

Questions about filing out

What is filing out the present participle and gerund of?
Filing out is the present participle and gerund of file out.

Words near filing out in the dictionary

  1. filing fee
  2. filing fees
  3. filing in
  4. filing off
  5. filing off the serial numbers
  6. filing out
  7. filing past
  8. filing system
  9. filing systems
  10. filing tray
  11. filing trays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filing out (page history and authors); file out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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