filing cabinet

filing cabinet

English

A metal filing cabinet

Noun

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

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

Synonyms

• file cabinet (Canada, US)
• file (Canada, US)

Translations

piece of office furniture

Belarusian: картатэ́ка f (kartatéka) Bulgarian: картоте́ка (bg) f (kartotéka) Catalan: fitxer (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 檔案櫃／档案柜 (zh) (dàng'ànguì) Czech: kartotéka f Esperanto: fakaro Finnish: arkistokaappi French: classeur à tiroirs m German: Aktenschrank (de) m Greek: αρχειοθήκη (el) f (archeiothíki) Icelandic: skjalaskápur Italian: casellario (it) m, classificatore (it) m Polish: segregator (pl) m, kartoteka (pl) f Russian: шкаф (ru) m (škaf), картоте́ка (ru) f (kartotéka) Slovak: kartotéka f Slovene: arhivska omarica f Spanish: archivador m (usually tall piece of furniture), archivero m (person or in Mex. piece of furniture), fichero m (box or piece of furniture), casillero m (more general-purpose piece of furniture) Swedish: arkivskåp n, mappskåp n, vertikalskåp n Turkish: dosya dolabı Ukrainian: картоте́ка f (kartotéka) Welsh: cabined ffeilio m, cabinedau ffeilio m pl

References

• “filing cabinet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.