file with

present singular third person files with · participle present filing with · participle past filed with · past filed with

1. To officially submit or present paperwork or information to a specific authority.

   I'll help you file your report with the supervisor once it's complete.

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   The students should file their assignments with the professor before the deadline.

   Synonyms: submit to, hand in to

2. archaicTo follow closely in line with, or to keep pace.

   My endeavours / Have ever come too short of my desires, / Yet filed with my abilities

   1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]