Meaning & use
round file
To discard something, especially a document, by throwing it in the trash rather than filing it away.
See it in a sentence
The editor round-filed the manuscript after reading only the first page.
Most of the complaint letters were quietly round-filed instead of being answered.
A note on using this word
An informal, joking office term, referring to a wastebasket as if it were a proper filing system.
Words with a similar meaning
discardtoss out
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Words with an opposite meaning
keep
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