Dossier
/ˈdɔs.jeɪ/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
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
Example
More examples"The top-secret dossier was sitting out on his desk in plain view. Would she have time to peek inside before he returned?"
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.