Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a wood or metal receptacle placed on a desk to hold documents which have been processed, prior to transfer to a different person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wood or metal receptacle placed on your desk to hold your outgoing material
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Examples
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She was giving up her seats and her position, as stated on the letters now lying in her printer's out-tray.
It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010
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She was giving up her seats and her position, as stated on the letters now lying in her printer's out-tray.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005
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She was giving up her seats and her position, as stated on the letters now lying in her printer's out-tray.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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She was giving up her seats and her position, as stated on the letters now lying in her printer's out-tray.
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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He signed it unread and hurled it into his out-tray.
Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995
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He flicked over the last page of the report and tossed it into his out-tray, stubbed out the cigarette and folded his hands across his middle, preparing to listen, as he usually did, with his attention fully engaged.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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He flicked over the last page of the report and tossed it into his out-tray, stubbed out the cigarette and folded his hands across his middle, preparing to listen, as he usually did, with his attention fully engaged.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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He flicked over the last page of the report and tossed it into his out-tray, stubbed out the cigarette and folded his hands across his middle, preparing to listen, as he usually did, with his attention fully engaged.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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An hour earlier the last file, containing his final minutes, had been collected by the uniformed messenger as quietly and unceremoniously as if this final emptying of his out-tray had been no different from any other.
The Murder Room James, P. D. 1988
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"If you are sitting in the Department of Finance - and I know this because I was there myself - if you sit there and do your grind and move files from the in-tray to the out-tray, you don't really learn a lot and you don't bring very much to the party."
The Guardian World News Lisa O'Carroll 2011
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