dossier

See also Dossier

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɒs.i.eɪ/, 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

From French, see below

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 (zh) (juànzōng), 檔案 (zh), 档案 (zh) (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

From French, see below

Noun

dossier n.

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 dossum

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

Noun

dossier m. inv.

1. dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

Anagrams

• dissero, ordisse, rodessi