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dossier|ˈdɒsɪə(r), ˈdɒsɪeɪ, ˈdɒsjeɪ|
[a. F. dossier, in sense ‘bundle of papers’, which from their bulging are likened to a back (dos): see dosser1.]
A bundle of papers or documents referring to some matter; esp. a bundle of papers or information about a person.
1880Contemp. Rev. 992 The dossiers of the electioneering agent. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 13 June 11/2 In neatly-docketed cabinets round his office stood the dossiers of all the criminals with whom he has had anything to do for the past eight years. 1885Spectator 8 Aug. 1040/2 A part of the Great Hastings dossier, the case against Sir Elijah Impey. 1912H. Belloc Servile State ix. 176 A series of dossiers by which the record of each workman can be established. 1920‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond xii. 300 Here's his dossier..‘Ditchling, Charles. Good speaker; clever; unscrupulous. Requires big money; worth it. Drinks.’ 1939M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives ii. 25 Questionnaires filled in by women of a better..position... Such dossiers would have served as ‘controls’. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. Apr. 129/3 A file check of government dossiers. 1967A. S. Neill Talking of Summerhill x. 125, I guessed they had rung up our Home Office to ask for my dossier. |