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Definition 2025
Dossier
Dossier
dossier
dossier
See also: Dossier
English
Noun
dossier (plural dossiers)
- A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
- 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:
- 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.
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Translations
A collection of papers and/or other sources
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- In Flanders the word is pronounced phonetically, in the Netherlands the pronunciation approximates the original French one.
Hyphenation: dos‧sier
Etymology
Borrowing from French dossier.
Noun
dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)
- dossier
- file, physical collection of documentation
Derived terms
- dossierbeheerder
- dossierkennis
- dossiervreter
- strafdossier
French
Etymology
From dos (“back(side)”), from Latin dorsum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dosje/
Noun
dossier m (plural dossiers)
- back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
- dossier
- file, account; directory on a computer, see folder.
- An organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder.
- (figuratively) case, notably legal
Derived terms
- dosseret m
See also
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Dossiers de chaises.
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Boîte destinée à contenir des documents formant un dossier.
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Symbole associé à un dossier informatique.