An out-tray is the tray where finished work waits to be collected. Put it in the out-tray, an empty out-tray, from the out-tray.
It marks the boundary between your job and somebody else's, which is why it feels so good to use. Like the in-tray it lives on mostly as a figure of speech.
1nounout-trayThe tray where finished work waits to be collected.
“The signed forms sat in the out-tray until Friday.”
out-tray is a tray.
Practised in Office & Admin