dossier

See also: Dossier

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɑs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɔ.si.eɪ/, /ˈdɑ.si.eɪ/, /-si.ɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒs.i.eɪ/
  • (file)

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”, 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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Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Pronunciation

  • (Netherlands) IPA(key): /dɔˈʃeː/
  • (Belgium) IPA(key): /dɔˈsiːr/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: dos‧sier

Noun

dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)

  1. dossier
  2. file, physical collection of documentation

Derived terms

  • dossierbeheerder
  • dossierkennis
  • dossiertijger
  • dossiervreter
  • medisch dossier
  • strafdossier

Descendants

  • Indonesian: dosir

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /do.sje/
  • (file)

Noun

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Adjective

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

  1. (colloquial) embarrassing

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dosˈsje/**
  • Rhymes: -e

Noun

dossier m (invariable)

  1. dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier, from Middle French dossier.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dossier n (indeclinable)

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

Further reading

  • dossier in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • dossier in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)

  1. Alternative spelling of dossiê

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈsjeɾ/ [d̪oˈsjeɾ]
  • Rhymes: -eɾ
  • Syllabification: dos‧sier

Noun

dossier m (plural dossieres)

  1. dossier

Usage notes

  • 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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