From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfiling cabinetˈfiling ˌcabinet noun [countable] British English 
BBOa piece of office furniture with drawers for storing letters, reports etc SYN file cabinet American English
BBOa piece of office furniture with drawers for storing letters, reports etc SYN file cabinet American EnglishExamples from the Corpus
filing cabinet• They fell down the back of a filing cabinet.• But he had never noticed her eyes in a moment such as this: as grey and hard as any filing cabinet.• It is rather like an empty filing cabinet waiting for the files to go in.• The Chief of Immigration then locked his filing cabinet and announced that Nina and I were wanted upstairs in another office.• Crashing and echoing, the filing cabinet toppled end-over-end down the stairs as the thing heaved itself through the door aperture.From Longman Business Dictionaryfiling cabinetˈfiling ˌcabinet noun [countable]OFFICE a piece of office furniture with two or more deep drawers. Filing cabinets are used to store documents and other paper recordsSYNfile cabinet AmEHe took the papers from the top drawer of the filing cabinet. 