Dictionary

filing

the formal submission of a document to an official organisation, usually a court of law or other public authority Congress approved $85 billion in loans from the American taxpayers to prevent a bankruptcy filing.

Phrase Bank

  • Accountants are busy just before tax filing time comes in mid-April.
  • In its filing, the company listed liabilities of $613 billion and assets of $639 billion.
  • The financial situation has quickly deteriorated since the April 10 filing.
  • court filing
  • regulatory filing
  • government filing
  • filing fee

Additional Notes

  • Other forms of the word
  • file - the noun form, means an organisation's records of a particular matter.
    eg The court's file contained the plaintiff's complaint, the defendant's answer, and all other documents filed in the case.
  • filer - a person or organisation who submits a filing.
    eg The Tax Authority requires that all filers have a tax identification number.
  • Common phrases
  • filing fee - the fee that must be paid upon filing.
  • filing requirements - the rules about when and how something must be filed.