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/ˈɹoʊɫəˌdɛks/
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NOUN
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(trademark) a desktop rotary card index with removable cards; usually used for names, addresses, and telephone numbers
a news reporter has to have a good Rolodex
How To Use Rolodex In A Sentence
- If you retype a Rolodex into a database format, the individual cards in the Rolodex correspond to what in the database?
- Our solutions will not stick if we do not re-examine the potential value of "Rolodex" presidents, slash-and-burn financial officers, and too many corporate leaders who could not mind their own stores. The Volokh Conspiracy
- This CIA "Rolodex" has now transmogrified itself into a global jihad against the NeoCon led dream of Pipelinestan. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
- The Editorial Page is consistently an embarrassment, the Opinion Page hasn't updated their contributor rolodex in decades and the paper carries a gaggle of inside-the-beltway dilettantes who almost never add anything of substance to the debate (you know: Broder, Milbank, Kurtz and the other regurgitators of cocktail party prater on the WP payroll). The Bias That We Fight...
- In times like these, your Rolodex is your secret weapon, because it contains the contacts you can call upon for help if you do end up getting the boot. Nicole Williams: Recession Rolodex: 7 Contacts to Have on Speed Dial
- Given his background in everything from gaming to finance to music Ito, also a DJ, once ran a nightclub in Japan Ito has a formidable Rolodex, which will presumably be put into use when he takes the helm of the Media Lab. MIT Media Labs: Meet the People Shaping Our Future
- a news reporter has to have a good Rolodex
- The Morning Benders 'new music video for "Promises," off their sophomore effort Big Echo, doesn't flex that kind of Rolodex muscle, but it does portray kids in Wayfarers drinking martinis and getting ready for what might as well be their own rendition of Barefoot in the Park. The latest from teenvogue.com
- Sure, David Rockefeller has collected a refrigerator-size tumbler of what were once called Rolodex cards, but only as a meticulous record of thousands of intimate interactions with people for whom he has cared, and who have cared about him. Forbes.com: News
- ‘I've always been a big networker, and when I look at my Rolodex I have over 1,000 names in there,’ he says.