dossier
pronunciation
How to pronounce dossier in British English:
UK [ˈdɒsieɪ]
How to pronounce dossier in American English:
US [ˈdɔsieɪ]
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- Noun:
- a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)
Word Origin
- dossier (n.)
- 1880, from French dossier "bundle of papers," from dos "back" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin dossum, variant of Latin dorsum "back" (see dorsal). Supposedly so called because the bundle bore a label on the back, or possibly from resemblance of the bulge in a mass of bundled papers to the curve of a back. Old French dossiere meant "back-strap, ridge strap (of a horse's harness)."
Example
- 1. Protests erupted four months later , sparked by a dossier that included pictures the paper had never published .
- 2. The dossier includes the interrogation of the one surviving attacker , intercepted communications , and the evidence of their weaponry .
- 3. Then our dossier went to the appropriate haitian authorities to be verified and approved .
- 4. A ' written-off ' generation of youngsters in a cycle of benefits dependency has been exposed in a dossier on youth poverty under labour .
- 5. Extracts from the dossier have been published previously , but it was not previously known that it included documentation on such an advanced warhead .