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Definition of File away

1. Verb. Place in a container for keeping records. "They file away the newspapers"; "File these bills, please"

2. Verb. Put into an archive. "They file away the newspapers"

Definition of File away

1. Verb. To store in a file ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of File Away

filberts filch filched filcher filchers filches filching filchingly filchings file

file-card file-drawer problem file-drawer problems file allocation table file allocation tables file away (current term) file cabinet file cabinets file card file clerk

file down file extension file extensions file folder file in file name file name extension file off file out file section

Literary usage of File away

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

1. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1844)
"... had already made hie artillery and his baggage file away ; he had deployed in the plain, and was enabled to frustrate the intentions of Bonaparte. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"file away, man," cried the" old ... snuffing the battle from afar, "file away! it wouldn't prick a hog's pudding. It's no good any way ; I'd pretty well as ..."

3. Bulletin by Spelling reform association, Boston (1881)
"It needs a new- type. Printers may use inverted r (j). In script a loop will do for the subscript a. For a capital, file away the left stem ..."

4. Digest of the Laws of California: Containing All Laws of a General Character by California, William H. R. Wood (1857)
"... and to number on the back of each receipt the number thereof, and for what fiscal year, and care- full v file away and preserve the same. Sec. 11. ..."

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