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
• Danish: arkivskab (da) n
• 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, schedario (it)
• Macedonian: шкаф m (škaf), картоте́ка f (kartotéka)
• 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.