Definition of Cross-file

1. Verb. Have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties.

Exact synonyms: Register
Generic synonyms: Campaign, Run
Specialized synonyms: Slate
Derivative terms: Register, Register

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross-file

cross-cut bur
cross-division
cross-dressers
cross-examination
cross-examine
cross-examiner
cross-eye
cross-eyed
cross-fertilisation
cross-fertilise
cross-fertilization
cross-fertilize
cross-file (current term)
cross-foster
cross-fostered
cross-fostering
cross-fosters
cross-garnet
cross-garnets
cross-grained
cross-hatch
cross-hatched
cross-hatches
cross-hatching
cross-hybridisation
cross-index
cross-infection

Literary usage of Cross-file

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1882)
"... used tor dressing or crowing out balance-wheels, and hence known as a cross file. The convex edges have usually different curvatures. See Cross file. ..."

2. The File in History: A Description of the Development of the File from the (1921)
"The cross file, sometimes called the "shadbelly," is a file which is Fig. 52—Block or valve file. rounded. It is used on work in machine shops where this ..."

3. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"The TOXNET system provides user-friendly searching, as well as sophisticated information handling technologies, such as cross-file printing and searching. ..."

4. Extracts from Chordal's Letters: Comprising the Choicest Selections from the by James Waring See (1909)
"Bring them to a true surface by any process and then cross-file them lightly, even with emery paper, so as to show that there are no marks running endwise. ..."

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