Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who files or uses a file in cutting, smoothing, or polishing.
  • noun A pickpocket.
  • noun One who defiles something.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who works with a file.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Agent noun of file; one who files something.
  • noun computing A software program for managing files.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization
  • noun a party who files a notice with a law court

Etymologies

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to file + -er

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