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filing

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfaɪ.lɪŋ//

Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.

noun

  1. 1

    Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.

    The process left metal filings all over the bench and the part.

  2. 2

    The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.

  3. 3

    Something that has been officially filed; a document on file.

    Mueller said in a court filing that Cohen had admitted he briefed Trump and unidentified Trump family members about the progress of the project more extensively than was previously known.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of filepresent participle and gerund of file

Forms

plural
filings
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).