Read the dictionary definition of filing. All definitions for this word.
1. preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.
1. I have some filing to do
2. the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
3. the entering of a legal document into the public record
1. he filed a complaint
2. he filed his tax return
4. a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file