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dossier

See also: Dossier

English

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Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

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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”, in The Scotsman‎[1]:
      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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Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

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dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)

  1. dossier
  2. file, physical collection of documentation

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  • → Indonesian: dosir

French

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Middle French dossier. By surface analysis, dos (“back(side)”) +‎ -ier.

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    dossier m (plural dossiers)

    1. back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
    2. dossier
    3. (computing) folder
    4. an organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder
    5. (figuratively) case, notably legal

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    •  
      Dossiers de chaises.
    •  
      Boîte destinée à contenir des documents formant un dossier.
    •  
      Symbole associé à un dossier informatique.

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    dossier (feminine dossière, masculine plural dossiers, feminine plural dossières)

    1. (colloquial) embarrassing

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    Italian

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    Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

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    dossier m (invariable)

    1. dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

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    Polish

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from French dossier, from Middle French dossier.

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    • IPA(key): /dɔˈsjɛ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛ
    • Syllabification: do‧ssier

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    dossier n (indeclinable)

    1. dossier (collection of documents related to a person or situation)
      Synonyms: akta, dokumentacja

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    • “dossier”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • “dossier”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)

    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

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    dossier m (plural dossiers)

    1. alternative spelling of dossiê

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    Spanish

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    Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

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    • IPA(key): /doˈsje/ [d̪oˈsje]
    • Rhymes: -e

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    dossier m (plural dossiers or dossieres)

    1. dossier

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    • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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    Swedish

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    Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

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    dossier c

    1. dossier

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    Declension of dossier
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite dossier dossiers
    definite dossiern dossierns
    plural indefinite dossierer dossierers
    definite dossiererna dossierernas

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    • “dossier”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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