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CIRCULAR FILE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does circular file mean?

• CIRCULAR FILE (noun)
The noun CIRCULAR FILE has 1 sense:

1. a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

Familiarity information: CIRCULAR FILE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CIRCULAR FILE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

circular file; waste basket; waste-paper basket; wastebasket; wastepaper basket

Hypernyms ("circular file" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

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