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means A folded piece of heavy paper used to hold and organize loose documents together, usually inside a filing cabinet or drawer.

from From "file," borrowed via French "fil" meaning thread or wire — because papers were once literally strung on a wire or cord to keep them in order. "Folder" is just "one that folds," from Old English "fealdan." Put together, the name remembers a time when organizing paperwork meant piercing it on a spike, not sliding it into a manila sleeve.