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FILE AWAY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Place in a container for keeping records
Example:
File these bills, please
Synonyms:
file; file away
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "file away" is one way to...):
enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put into an archive
Synonyms:
archive; file away
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "file away" is one way to...):
collect; pull in (get or bring together)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They file away the newspapers
