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dossier noun [ ˈdɒsɪə ]

• a collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject.
• "we have a dossier on him"
Similar: file, report, case history, case study, casebook, account, notes, document(s), documentation, data, information, evidence, annal(s), archive(s), chronicle(s), diary, journal, memoir, register, log, logbook, inventory, list, catalogue, muniments,
Origin: late 19th century: from French, denoting a bundle of papers with a label on the back, from dos ‘back’, based on Latin dorsum .


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