The word "briefcase" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a portable case, usually made of leather, used to carry papers and other work-related items. Example sentence: I always put my laptop and paperwork in my briefcase before leaving the office.
If you are hiking, cycling or running to work, a rucksack makes more sense than a briefcase.
Mbalula said he knew nothing about it: "From everybody I've spoken to, no one has come forward to say: 'It was me who took the briefcase to France.'" Mbalula also spoke of his shock at Blatter's decision to quit just days after being re-elected as Fifa president.
The best of all worlds, in my opinion, is a soft-sided briefcase in brown leather.
Valkyrie tells the true story of Von Stauffenberg's attempt to assassinate Hitler with a briefcase bomb towards the end of the second world war.
The US indictment also alleges a briefcase stuffed with cash was handed over at a Paris hotel as a bribe by a "high-ranking South African bid committee official".
Today, he turns up at the Guardian in check shirt, brown tie, beige jacket and maroon trousers, carrying a briefcase and a few extra pounds – he looks more like a salesman than a former footballer.
Rudolph Giuliani, mayor of New York at the time, described seeing a man clutching a briefcase as he jumped from one of the burning twin towers.
Los Alamos's lost hard-drives may yet turn up at the bottom of someone's briefcase.
A few are already small enough to be carried in a briefcase; others are the size of a jet fighter and need a runway for take-off.Having evolved from military use, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are taking to the air in increasing numbers for public-service and civilian roles.
He is plump, dishevelled, lawyerly; his ego is of modest size; he is the grey guy with the fat briefcase.
A Jamaican policeman stopped on a cruise ship, on duty with six kilos (13.2lb) in his briefcase.
