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filing is a noun meaning "the entering of a legal document into the public record". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the entering of a legal document into the public record
“he filed a complaint”
“he filed his tax return”
a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.
“I have some filing to do”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for filing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.