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Binder clip

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

nounCommon term

In office & administration, binder clip means: A small metal office clip with fold-down handles, used to hold a thick stack of papers together without stapling.

In Turkish: kıskaç

How it is used

Common in offices for reports, contracts, and grouped documents when pages may need to be removed, reordered, scanned, or copied later.

Example sentences

  1. Use a binder clip on the signed contracts, because legal needs to remove and rescan several pages later this afternoon.

    Here, the term means a temporary fastener that keeps the contracts together while allowing specific pages to be removed cleanly.

  2. The quarterly report was too thick for a single staple, so I secured it with a large binder clip before the meeting.

    In this example, the term refers to a stronger paper holder chosen because the document stack is thicker than a staple can manage.

Common collocations

  • large binder clip
  • black binder clip
  • binder clip handles
  • staplerA small tool that joins sheets of paper together by pushing a thin piece of bent metal, called a staple, through them.
  • office suppliesEveryday items an office needs to work, such as paper, pens, toner, folders, staples and sometimes kitchen items like coffee and tea.

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