Dossier

//ˈdɔs.jeɪ// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) wordnet

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"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.

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