file cabinets

Office storage furniture

File cabinets is the plural of file cabinet—a piece of office furniture with drawers designed to hold documents in organized folders.

The standard design features deep drawers that accommodate hanging files arranged front to back: She rifled through the file cabinets looking for the contract.

Though increasingly replaced by digital storage, file cabinets remain fixtures in offices, medical practices, and government buildings.

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storage medium

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Online data preservation service

digital storage · hard drives · servers · databases · solid-state drives

organizational approach

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junk drawers · clutter · cardboard boxes · chaos

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G