| 释义 |
ˈin-basket
[Cf. in adv. 12 a.]
In an office, etc.: a basket or tray for incoming correspondence and other documents. Cf. in-tray.
Sometimes written as two separate words with in regarded adjectivally.
1940Amer. Speech XV. 247 His incoming mail is put in an in-basket. 1948‘N. Shute’ No Highway v. 130, I sighed and pulled my IN basket towards me, full of the arrears of work. 1957J. Braine Room at Top xxviii. 217 My in-basket was full. 1970New Yorker 26 Sept. 40/3 She sat down beside him with pencil and paper and let him churn up the contents of his ‘in’ and ‘out’ baskets. |