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briefcaseful en · NOUN

Etymology

From briefcase + -ful.

Meanings

  1. Enough to fill a briefcase.
    • Like how his father not only had worked long hours at the Midland Pacific Railroad and read aloud to his children and done the yard work and home maintenance and processed a nightly briefcaseful of executive paper but had also found time to operate a serious metallurgical laboratory in the family basement, staying up past midnight to subject strange alloys to electrical and chemical stresses. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

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