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briefcase

noun as in carrier for work papers

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He carried a script he was writing in a slim briefcase, which he’d shuttle back and forth from the brand-new Starbucks down the street.

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He opened briefcases and huge chests with bundles of cash.

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If the blast was deliberate, it would be the deadliest such incident in New Delhi since 2011, when a bomb placed in a briefcase outside a courthouse killed 15 people and injured dozens of others.

There was the “football”—a black briefcase carried by military officers, handed off from one to the other, kept close to the president at all times.

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Another video showed a robber carrying a weapon and opening the rear door of the van, while another loaded briefcases into the vehicle.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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