dossier
See also: Dossier
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɑs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɔ.si.eɪ/, /ˈdɑ.si.eɪ/, /-si.ɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒs.i.eɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun edit
dossier (plural dossiers)
- 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.
Translations edit
collection of papers and/or other sources
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Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)
- dossier
- file, physical collection of documentation
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: dosir
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French dossier. By surface analysis, dos (“back(side)”) + -ier.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dossier m (plural dossiers)
- back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
- dossier
- (computing) folder
- an organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder
- (figuratively) case, notably legal
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants
- → English: dossier
- → Dutch: dossier
- → Indonesian: dosir
- → German: Dossier
- → Hijazi Arabic: دوسيه (dōsē)
- → Italian: dossier
- → Luxembourgish: Dossier
- → Portuguese: dossiê, dossier (unadapted form)
- → Romanian: dosar
- → Sicilian: dusseri, dossier
- → Spanish: dossier, dosier
- → Ottoman Turkish: دوسیه (dosya)
- Turkish: dosya
Gallery edit
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Dossiers de chaises.
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Boîte destinée à contenir des documents formant un dossier.
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Symbole associé à un dossier informatique.
Adjective edit
dossier (feminine dossière, masculine plural dossiers, feminine plural dossières)
Further reading edit
- “dossier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dossier m (invariable)
- dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier, from Middle French dossier.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dossier n (indeclinable)
- dossier (collection of documents related to a person or situation)
- Synonyms: akta, dokumentacja
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
Noun edit
dossier m (plural dossiers)
- Alternative spelling of dossiê
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dossier m (plural dossieres)
Usage notes edit
- 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.
Further reading edit
- “dossier”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014