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circular file
circular filen. Slang A wastebasket.cir′cular file′
n. a wastebasket. [1945–50] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  circular file - a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbishwaste basket, wastebasket, wastepaper basket, waste-paper basketcontainer - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) |
circular file
circular fileA jocular term for a trashcan or waste basket, i.e., a receptacle for unwanted files. You have to make your application really stand out if you don't want it to end up in the employer's circular file.See also: circular, filecircular file and round file n. a wastebasket. (see also file thirteen.) Most of the junk mail sits here until I can put it into the circular file. Oh, that letter? It went straight to the round file. See also: circular, filecircular file
circular file[′sər·kyə·lər ′fīl] (computer science) An organized collection of records, generally with a high turnover, in which new records are inserted by replacing the oldest records. circular file
Synonyms for circular filenoun a container with an open topSynonyms- waste basket
- wastebasket
- wastepaper basket
- waste-paper basket
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