the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc. |
something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) |
an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | the entering of a legal document into the public record |
a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file |
(law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing | |
the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | |
the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else | |