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out-tray|ˈaʊttreɪ|
[f. out- 3 + tray n.2]
In an office, etc.: a tray for outgoing and completed correspondence and other papers. Cf. in-tray, out-basket.
Sometimes written as two separate words with out regarded adjectivally.
1943[see in-tray]. 1943G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. ii. 25 There were two trays on his desk marked In and Out, but the Out tray was empty. 1947L. Hastings Dragons are Extra ix. 198 Invariably they were removed to the ‘out’ tray, probably with the tongs. 1959Punch 30 Sept. 249/1, I looked around at the dusty chaos and saw how orderly it all could be..files here, records there, in-trays, out-trays. 1969J. Argenti Managem. Techniques 247 Put this piece of paper in the Out-tray. 1976Deakin & Willis Johnny go Home vi. 90 His desk is adorned with..wire In and Out trays. |