| 单词 |
in-tray |
| 释义 |
in-tray|ˈɪntreɪ| [Cf. in adv. 12 a.] In an office, etc.: a tray for incoming correspondence and other papers; = in-basket. Cf. out-tray. Sometimes written as two separate words with in regarded adjectivally.
1941Punch 25 June 602/2, I found the first one lying quietly in my IN tray (or IN wire-basket). 1943W. S. Churchill Second World War (1951) IV. 852 A habit of having secret papers placed in ‘In’ or ‘Out’ trays on the desks of important officers. 1958New Statesman 25 Jan. 112/3, I hope some copies reach the In-trays of the Indian officials who refused to support him at Oxford. 1968P. McKellar Experience & Behaviour vi. 163 In an office, some item waiting to be dealt with in the older man's in-tray may seem to him to wait only a short time. 1970New Scientist 30 Apr. 239/1 The issue of industrial noise is finding its way to the political in-trays. |
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