filing cabinet

noun

A piece of office furniture composed of drawers or shelves sized to standard file folder widths, traditionally used for storing documents in order.

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file cabinetfile
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Meanings

nounfiling cabinet (plural filing cabinets)

plural filing cabinets

  1. A piece of office furniture composed of drawers or shelves sized to standard file folder widths, traditionally used for storing documents in order.

    [...] adjacent is a clerk's room, with filing cabinets.

    1960 December, “New G.E. diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767

    Synonyms: file cabinet, file

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA piece of office furniture composed of drawers or shelves sized to standard file folder widths, traditionally used for storing documents in order.

Similar
file cabinetfile

More synonyms by meaning

nounoffice furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order

Similar
filefile cabinet
Broader
office furniture
Also see
filefile cabinet

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian картоте́ка
  • картоте́ка (kartotéka)piece of office furniture
Catalan fitxer
  • fitxerpiece of office furniture
Chinese Mandarin 檔案櫃 /档案柜
  • 檔案櫃 /档案柜 (dàng'ànguì)piece of office furniture
Czech kartotéka
  • kartotékapiece of office furniture
Danish arkivskab
  • arkivskabpiece of office furniture
Esperanto fakaro
  • fakaropiece of office furniture
Finnish arkistokaappi
  • arkistokaappipiece of office furniture
French classeur à tiroirs
  • classeur à tiroirspiece of office furniture
German Aktenschrank
  • Aktenschrankpiece of office furniture
Greek αρχειοθήκη
  • αρχειοθήκη (archeiothíki)piece of office furniture
Icelandic skjalaskápur
  • skjalaskápurpiece of office furniture
Italian casellario, classificatore
  • casellariopiece of office furniture
  • classificatorepiece of office furniture
  • schedariopiece of office furniture
Polish segregator, kartoteka
  • segregatorpiece of office furniture
  • kartotekapiece of office furniture
Portuguese arquivador, arquivo
  • arquivadorpiece of office furniture
  • arquivopiece of office furniture
Russian шкаф, картоте́ка
  • шкаф (škaf)piece of office furniture
  • картоте́ка (kartotéka)piece of office furniture
Slovak kartotéka
  • kartotékapiece of office furniture
Spanish archivador, archivero
  • archivadorpiece of office furniture
  • archiveropiece of office furniture
  • ficheropiece of office furniture
  • casilleropiece of office furniture
Swedish arkivskåp, mappskåp
  • arkivskåppiece of office furniture
  • mappskåppiece of office furniture
  • vertikalskåppiece of office furniture
Turkish dosya dolabı
  • dosya dolabıpiece of office furniture
Ukrainian картоте́ка
  • картоте́ка (kartotéka)piece of office furniture
Welsh cabined ffeilio, cabinedau ffeilio
  • cabined ffeiliopiece of office furniture
  • cabinedau ffeiliopiece of office furniture
Cite this entry
APA

filing cabinet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/filing%20cabinet

MLA

“filing cabinet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/filing%20cabinet. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “filing cabinet,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/filing%20cabinet.

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