dossier

See also Dossier

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɒs.i.eɪ/, X-SAMPA: /"dQs.I.eI/
• DOSS-EE-AY ; 'do' as in dot, 'ss' as in hiss, 'ee' as in wee, 'ay' as in day: DOt,hiSS-wEE-dAY; DOSS-EE-AY

Etymology

Borrowing from French dossier.

Noun

dossier (plural dossiers)

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.
   • 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, 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.

Translations

A collection of papers and/or other sources

• Arabic: ملف (ar) (mílaff) m
• Bulgarian: досие (bg) (dosié) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卷宗 (cmn) (juànzōng), 檔案 (cmn), 档案 (cmn) (dàng'àn)

• Dutch: dossier (nl) n
• Finnish: asiakirjat (fi) pl, paperit (fi) pl
• French: dossier (fr) m

• German: Dossier (de) n, Akte (de) f
• Japanese: 一件書類 (ja) (いっけんしょるい, ikken shorui)
• Polish: dossier (pl) n, akta (pl)
• Russian: досье (ru) (dos’jé) n, дело (ru) (délo) n, папка (ru) (pápka) f
• Swedish: dossier (sv)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• dossier

  (file)

Etymology

Borrowing from French dossier.

Noun

dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje)

1. dossier
2. file, physical collection of documentation

Derived terms

• dossierbeheerder m
• dossierkennis
• dossiervreter m
• (types of file) strafdossier n

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French

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Etymology

From dos (“back(side)”), from Latin dorsum.

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
2. dossier
3. file, account; directory on a computer, see folder.
4. An organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder.
5. (figuratively) case, notable legal

Derived terms

• dosseret m

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from French dossier.

Noun

dossier m (invariable)

1. dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

Anagrams

• dissero, ordisse, rodessi