A filing cabinet is a tall set of deep drawers for storing documents. Lock the filing cabinet.
Only one drawer opens at a time on a good one, or the whole thing falls forward. A filing cabinet outlives every system anybody devises for what goes in it.
1nounfiling cabinetA tall set of deep drawers for storing documents.
“The filing cabinet had one key and nobody knew where it was.”
filing cabinet is furniture.
Practised in Office & Admin