dossier
/ˈdɒs.i.eɪ/US/ˈdɔs.jeɪ/
dossier noun: a collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
Noun
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.
- 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.2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman
dossier meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
dossier in Hindi
- collection of papers and/or other sources
- प्रलेख pralekh, पत्र patra
dossier in Tamil
- மந்தணக் கோப்பு, வாழ்க்கைக் குறிப்புக் கோப்பு, நோயர்களின் சிகிச்சைக் குறிப்பு, நோயர்களின் நோய்க் குறிப்பு
dossier in Urdu
- سوابق, ذاتی کاغذات
dossier in Bengali
- ডসিয়ার
More languagesFewer languages
- dossier in Malayalam
- കേസുകെട്ട്, വ്യവഹാരക്കുറിപ്പ്, പ്രമാണഫയൽ, കേസിനെസംബന്ധിച്ച രേഖാസമാഹാരം
- dossier in Punjabi
- ਡੋਜ਼ੀਅਰ
- dossier in Gujarati
- ડોઝિયર
- dossier in Arabic
- مِلَفّ milaff
- dossier in Indonesian
- dosir
- dossier in Persian
- دوسیه dosye
Forms of dossier
| plural | dossiers |
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Origin of dossier
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
Questions about dossier
- What does dossier mean?
- Dossier means a collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
- What is dossier in Hindi?
- Dossier in Hindi is प्रलेख (pralekh), पत्र (patra). See Dossier meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dossier?
- Dossier is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dossier?
- Dossier is pronounced /ˈdɔs.jeɪ/ (US).
- What is the plural of dossier?
- The plural of dossier is dossiers.
Words near dossier in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dossier (page history and authors); dossier (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dossier (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dossier (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dossier (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dossier (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dossier (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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