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Verb	1.	file away - place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please" file record, enter, put down - make a record of; set down in permanent form
	2.	file away - put into an archive archive collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"

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w>file away

vt sep papers → zu den Akten legen; to file something away in one’s memory → etw im Gedächtnis behalten

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He saw clearly that it was his irrevocable destiny to remain a prisoner till dawn, or, perhaps, even late in the morning; then the smith must be fetched to file away the bars; but all that would not be done so quickly as he could think about it.

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Some threw themselves upon the captives as they got towards the door, and tried to file away their irons; some danced about them with a frenzied joy, and rent their clothes, and were ready, as it seemed, to tear them limb from limb.

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Raffles afterward assured me that nineteen of them had been spent in filing one key; but one of his latest inventions was a little thick velvet bag in which he carried the keys; and this bag had two elastic mouths, which closed so tightly about either wrist that he could file away, inside, and scarcely hear it himself.

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BAGHDAD / NINA / - Former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi stressed the importance of keeping the security file away from political conflicts, pointing out that the fighter who made sacrifices and achieved victory is not for a party or a bloc but for the country.

Al-Abadi stresses the importance of keeping the security file away from political conflicts

"Deng Alor is not the old man and he is away from intransigence and intolerance and I expect to work together on the Abyei file away from the agendas of Khartoum and Juba," he added.

Sudan's Misseriya welcome Deng Alor's assignment for Abyei file

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