In-tray (Noun)
Meaning
A wood or metal receptacle placed on your desk to hold your incoming material.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The administrative assistant sorted through the documents in her in-tray, labeling each one with its corresponding project number.
- She spent most of her morning clearing out her in-tray, filing away completed tasks and disposing of unnecessary paperwork.
- Her in-tray was filled to the brim with urgent reports and unanswered memos, all vying for her immediate attention.
- Every time the mail arrived, the office clerk would dump the contents into the department head's in-tray, adding to the ever-growing pile of paperwork.
- As the team leader, her in-tray was always overflowing with requests from team members, reports from the research department, and meeting invitations.