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dossier

noun

  1. file
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Pronunciation: /ˈdɔs.jeɪ/ / /ˈdɑs.jeɪ/ / /ˈdɔ.si.eɪ/

noun

Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

  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.

    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.