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folderful en · NOUN

Etymology

From folder + -ful.

Meanings

1. All of the documents, papers, notes, etc. that are contained in a folder.
   • The whole point of local radio was to involve the community, to be its village hall, its notice board, its next-door neighbour — we had foldersful of corporation cliches about all this. 2010, Michael Buerk -, The Road Taken, →ISBN, page 98:
   • Each of Shearson's business units generates a folderful of documentation a day: hundreds of journal entries, order tickets, wire transfers, cash sheets and other items. 1990, Datamation - Volume 36, Issues 1-8, page 61:
   • Ben Gordon slid the folderful of pamphlets on the Philosopher's Stone across his desk to Josef. 1980, Robert Taylor, Burchenal Green, Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing, page 208:
   • On the primary course, you create whole folderfuls of these paper-fillers, each individual task being incredibly straightforward but also annoyingly time-consuming. 2007, Jon Barbuti, Learning to Teach with a Hangover, →ISBN, page 153:
2. All of the electronic files contained in a folder or directory.
   • Control Panel provides a folderful of essential property sheets and helpful wizards. 1995, Craig Stinson, Running Microsoft Windows 95:
   • I deleted all the other versions from my computer, dozens of foldersful, the result of nearly two years' work. 2008, Andy Kirkpatrick, Psychovertical, →ISBN, page 117:
   • This Mac OS X capability to open a folderful of documents when a folder is selected in an Open dialog can be pretty scary when, from years of habit, you select a folder and hit the Open button to open the folder to look inside, and—whoops! 2006, Sharon Zardetto Aker, Real World Mac OS X Fonts, →ISBN:

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