Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a wood or metal receptacle placed on a desk to hold incoming material requiring attention, especially documents.
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 incoming material
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Examples
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Every serious investor has a stack of these in their in-basket.
Marty Zwilling: 10 Business Plan Follies That Make Investors Cringe Marty Zwilling 2011
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Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket email or real plastic awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail.
Marty Zwilling: 10 Business Plan Follies That Make Investors Cringe Marty Zwilling 2011
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Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket email or real plastic awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail.
Marty Zwilling: 10 Business Plan Follies That Make Investors Cringe Marty Zwilling 2011
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Keep an in-basket near your back door for items that need to be returned to rooms and an out-basket for dirty dry cleaning and library books.
DST: Cleaning shortcuts that’ll help you reclaim that lost hour 2011
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Every serious investor has a stack of these in their in-basket.
Marty Zwilling: 10 Business Plan Follies That Make Investors Cringe Marty Zwilling 2011
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“Ronald knows I want to record you,” Fred says, as he points to a cassette at the top of his in-basket.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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Emma picked up a thick sheaf of paper from her desktop, work that seemed to be completed, and set it in the in-basket.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I picked up my mail, poured a cup of coffee, and started in on the paperwork that waited daily for me in my in-basket.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Look through your desk drawers, desktop, in-basket, closets, cupboards, shelves and file drawers and make a master to-do list of anything that needs to be done based on what you see.
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Look through your desk drawers, desktop, in-basket, closets, cupboards, shelves and file drawers and make a master to-do list of anything that needs to be done based on what you see.
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