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noun

filing

the entering of a legal document into the public record

In a sentence

Six example sentences with filing, each labelled with its topic.

  • The filing arrived nine minutes before the clerk's office closed, and the case was docketed the same afternoon.

    Law

  • Analysts read the quarterly filing line by line, because the footnotes disclosed a lease the press release never mentioned.

    Finance

  • Their incorporation filing went in on a Tuesday, and by Friday the company legally existed with two named directors.

    Startups

  • The bankruptcy filing listed forty creditors, and the largest was a landlord owed eight months of rent on the warehouse.

    Business

  • The patent filing describes a hinge that folds a screen in half, two years before any such phone reached shops.

    Technology

  • Her candidacy filing reached the election office an hour before the deadline, with the required two hundred signatures attached.

    Politics

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