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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesclasseur
Pronunciation / Transliteration: klasœʁ
"Les dossiers importants sont rangés dans le classeur."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A piece of office furniture with drawers used for storing documents and files in an organized manner.
"She opened the metal filing cabinet to retrieve the client records." - 2
An organized system or physical container designed to hold index cards or categorized folders.
"The recipe collection was neatly maintained in a desktop card index box."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the verb 'file' (from Old French 'filer', ultimately from Latin 'filum' meaning thread, referring to papers strung on a thread) combined with 'cabinet' (from Middle French 'cabinet', a small room or piece of furniture). It evolved during the late 19th century with the expansion of bureaucratic and corporate record-keeping systems.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Filing cabinet" is said worldwide
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classeur
Transliteration: klasœʁ
"Les dossiers importants sont rangés dans le classeur."
Aktenchrank
Transliteration: ˈaktənˌʃʁaŋk
"Der Aktenchrank steht im Büro des Managers."
schedario
Transliteration: skeˈdaːrjo
"Tutti i nomi sono registrati nello schedario."
archivador
Transliteration: aɾtʃiβaˈðoɾ
"Guardó los documentos en el archivador de la oficina."
fichário
Transliteration: fiˈʃaɾju
"O fichário contém todas as fichas dos pacientes."
फ़ाइल कैबिनेट
Transliteration: fail kainebinʈ
"महत्वपूर्ण दस्तावेज फाइल कैबिनेट में रखे हैं।"
文件柜
Transliteration: wén jiàn guì
"合同被锁在文件柜里。"
서류함
Transliteration: seoryuham
"중요한 서류는 서류함에 보관하세요."
ファイルキャビネット
Transliteration: fairu kyabinetto
"その資料はファイルキャビネットにしまってあります。"
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