Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
📄 Official submission 🗂️ Organizing documents 🪚 Smoothing with file 🧲 Small shavings
filing

filing

40 2.4
Keeping and arranging papers so they are easy to find
  • noun
  • /ˈfaɪlɪŋ/
: archivo
  • She organized her papers into the filing cabinet for better accessibility.
  • a filing system
  • a filing cabinet
  • filing cards

Hey, we are not hiring, but we might just keep some fucking information filing.

Examples

  • All this filing and record keeping?

    Day of the Dead (1985)

  • A small office, shared by two men, and a mountain of filing cabinets and paper.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The S corporation status is the tax filing status only.

  • You can look in the filing cabinet.

    Transference: A Bipolar Love Story (2020)

  • I was just doing some filing.

    Eileen (2023)

  • The location of the statements in the body of the filing varies significantly.

    Academic text (2005)

  • By the way, do you lock your filing cabinets?

    Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)

  • All the stuff you need should be in the filing cabinet beside my desk, the middle drawer.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The auditor kept the data in a locked filing cabinet to ensure confidentiality.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Carl opens the middle drawer of a metal filing cabinet and pulls out a folder.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

record-keeping
vsfiling
13 3.3

Keeping written or digital information so you can find it later

focuses on arranging and preserving existing papers for easy reference
filing system
vsfiling
11 2.9

A way of putting papers or computer files in order so you can find them easily

is the active process of arranging and preserving documents rather than the organizing method
file system
vsfiling
9 3.5

A way of arranging and storing paper documents or computer data so you can find them

is the active process of arranging and preserving papers for later retrieval

Compounds

filing cabinet
21 2.1

A piece of office furniture with drawers for storing paper files

filing system
11 2.9

A way of putting papers or computer files in order so you can find them easily

filing clerk
2 2.7

A person who organizes and keeps documents for an office

iron filing
1 3.8

A tiny piece of iron that comes off metal when you scrape it, used to show how magnets work

metal filing
1 5.5

Small thin pieces of metal that come off when you scrape metal

How Organized

to archive
34 3.9
to catalog
  • US
61 3.9
filing
40 2.4
sorting
19 2.0
to stack
150 1.6

Surface Forms

filing singular
filings plural

Morphology

filing = file (transparent) = file + ing

Built from the verb 'file' (to organise/store documents) plus '-ing' to denote the activity or process, which is a productive and transparent derivation.

Etymology

Filing comes from file meaning a place or group for papers, so filing is the act of arranging and keeping documents in order so you can find them easily.