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Definitions for briefcase
ˈbrifˌkeɪsbrief·case

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. briefcasenoun

    a case with a handle; for carrying papers or files or books

Wiktionary

  1. briefcasenoun

    a case used for carrying documents (especially by business people)

Wikipedia

  1. Briefcase

    A briefcase is a narrow hard-sided box-shaped bag or case used mainly for carrying papers and equipped with a handle. Lawyers commonly use briefcases to carry briefs to present to a court, hence the name. Businesspeople and other white collar professionals also use briefcases to carry papers, and since the 1980s, electronic devices such as laptop computers and tablet computers. Some briefcases have only a main internal space, while others may have subsections, accordion sections, small pockets, or dividers. Briefcases may be made from leather, vinyl, durable fabric, thin metal (such as aluminium), or plastic. Leather, vinyl, or fabric briefcases may have externally-accessible pockets or sleeves in addition to the main storage space. Some briefcases made of fabric may have a shoulder strap. Briefcases typically have a lock to protect the contents. Nowadays, briefcases may have padded internal pouches to protect laptop computers.

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  1. briefcase

    A briefcase is a portable, often rectangular case with a handle, used mainly for carrying papers, documents, or books. It is commonly used by professionals such as lawyers, businesspersons, or salespeople to carry important files, business contracts, or essential work-related materials, and is typically made of leather, hard plastic, or synthetic materials. Some versions may have locks for added security.

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  1. Briefcase

    A briefcase is a narrow box-shaped bag or case used mainly for carrying papers and other documents and equipped with a handle. Lawyers commonly use briefcases to carry briefs to present to a court, hence the name. Businesspeople and other professionals also use briefcases to carry important papers and, today, laptop computers. Briefcases are descendants of the limp satchel used in the fourteenth century for carrying money and valuables. It was called a "budget", derived from the Latin word "bulga" or Irish word "bolg", both meaning leather bag, and also the source of the financial term "budget". Godillot of Paris was the first to use a hinged iron frame on a carpet bag, in 1826. There then followed the Gladstone bag and the Rosebery, an oval-top bag. Eventually these became the modern metal-framed briefcase. The first of what is known as the modern rectangular briefcase is said to have been invented in the late 1850s.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of briefcase in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of briefcase in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of briefcase in a Sentence

  1. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski:

    I'd barely arrived to a lunch with financiers and investors, and I already had in my briefcase an offer for $5 billion, i told them let's not get ahead of ourselves, I still haven't arrived.

  2. Shelley Clark:

    We can think of iconic images like The Atlantic monthly cover of the mom carrying the kid in the briefcase to work and how absurd that's supposed to be to us, but then when we think of women in lower-income countries, you think of the mom selling goods at the market with a kid strapped to her back, and you think,' Well, that's not a problem for her, because she can easily combine child care and work,' there's this perception out there that for the kinds of work that women do in lower-income countries, it's easier to combine child care and work.

  3. Hebert Garcia:

    I began denouncing some briefcase companies, especially meat importers, apparently, it didn't go down very well, because it was touching the interests of some government figures ... Somehow, he (Maduro) began losing trust and our relationship deteriorated. So I resigned.

  4. Tori Spelling:

    I heard about the show from my agent. She said, ‘Your dad is doing it.’ I was like, ‘I haven’t heard anything about it.’ I popped into his briefcase when he got home, and I was like, cool, i really wanted to play Andrea. I went in under a different name, then I got the part of Donna — which I’m sure had something to do with my dad.

  5. Dick Durbin:

    Well, I'm concerned. There's a standard that we follow when it comes to members of Congress and classified information. The door to my office is closed. The person that presents the document to me takes it out of a locked briefcase, hands it to me and watches as I read it. When I finish reading it, he takes it back, puts it in the briefcase and leaves the scene, that's how carefully we review these documents. To think that any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable.

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