out-basket
3.6
A tray on a desk for holding letters and papers to send
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌbæskɪt/
- US
:
bandeja de salida
- After reviewing the documents, he set them in the out-basket on his desk.
Examples
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You drop the finished job in your out basket and pick up another envelope.
Fiction book (2002) -
E-Ringer, I'll check my out-basket in the morning.
Fiction book (1997) -
She placed the final report in the out-basket for the mailroom to collect.
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He checked the out-basket to ensure all outgoing mail was ready for dispatch.
Synonyms
outbox
vsout-basket
1
3.4
A folder where outgoing emails or messages wait to be sent
is limited to the physical desk container for outgoing documents or mail
4.1
A tray on a desk where you put papers to send out
is specifically the desk container for outgoing documents or mail
Antonyms
Surface Forms
out-basket singular
out-baskets plural
Morphology
Etymology
Out-basket is made from out-, meaning 'going out', and basket, a container for holding things, so it originally meant a tray for items that leave the desk. That's why an out-basket is the tray where finished mail or papers wait to be sent, like a physical version of an email outbox.