n. Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.
n. The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
v. Present participle of file.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of using a file.
n. A fragment or particle rubbed off by a file: as, iron-filings.
n. The act of putting upon file.
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n. preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.
n. the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
n. the entering of a legal document into the public record
n. a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
Word Usage
"But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him."