dossier
noun/ˈdɒsieɪ/
/ˈdɔːsieɪ/
(formal)- a collection of documents that contain information about a person, an event or a subject synonym file
- to assemble/compile a dossier
- dossier on somebody/something We have a dossier on him.
Extra Examples- The dossier contained details of every meeting the two men had attended.
- The group compiled a dossier of patients' complaints.
- They kept dossiers on all trade union members.
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French, denoting a bundle of papers with a label on the back, from dos ‘back’, based on Latin dorsum.Definitions on the go
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