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Definition of Cross-file
1. Verb. Have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties.
Generic synonyms: Campaign, Run
Specialized synonyms: Slate
Derivative terms: Register, Register
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross-file
Literary usage of Cross-file
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1882)
"... used tor dressing or crowing out balance-wheels, and hence known as a cross file.
The convex edges have usually different curvatures. See Cross file. ..."
2. The File in History: A Description of the Development of the File from the (1921)
"The cross file, sometimes called the "shadbelly," is a file which is Fig. 52—Block
or valve file. rounded. It is used on work in machine shops where this ..."
3. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"The TOXNET system provides user-friendly searching, as well as sophisticated
information handling technologies, such as cross-file printing and searching. ..."
4. Extracts from Chordal's Letters: Comprising the Choicest Selections from the by James Waring See (1909)
"Bring them to a true surface by any process and then cross-file them lightly,
even with emery paper, so as to show that there are no marks running endwise. ..."
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