Definition of "in-basket" [in-basket]

• A wood or metal receptacle placed on a desk to hold incoming material requiring attention, especially documents. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Keep an in-basket near your back door for items that need to be returned to rooms and an out-basket for dirty dry cleaning and library books."
• "Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket email or real plastic awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail."
• "Every serious investor has a stack of these in their in-basket."