file out
Depart in line
File out means to exit in an orderly line or procession, one after another: The students filed out of the auditorium.
It suggests methodical, unhurried movement—the opposite of rushing or crowding through a door.
The related file in describes entering the same way.
- departLeave a place
- processionFormal moving line
- leaveSanctioned time away
- exitWay to leave
- paradeCeremonial public procession
march · evacuate · fire drill · shuffle · sequence · queue · doorway · succession · group · crowd · hallway · alignment · corridor · intervals · formation · one by one · line up · passageway