file with
verb1
To officially submit or present paperwork or information to a specific authority.
- The students should file their assignments with the professor before the deadline.
- I'll help you file your report with the supervisor once it's complete.
2
Archaic To follow closely in line with, or to keep pace.
- My endeavours / Have ever come too short of my desires, / Yet filed with my abilities1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]: