file with

English

Verb

file with (third-person singular simple present files with, present participle filing with, simple past and past participle filed with)

1. To officially submit or present paperwork or information to a specific authority.

   Synonyms: submit to, hand in to

   The students should file their assignments with the professor before the deadline.

   I'll help you file your report with the supervisor once it's complete.

2. To follow closely, like one soldier after another in file; to keep pace.
   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     My endeavours / Have ever come too short of my desires, / Yet filed with my abilities

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “file with”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)