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Dossier
//ˈdɔs.jeɪ// noun
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Noun
- 1 A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
"For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year."
- 2 a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) wordnet
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
See also for "dossier"
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