DOSSIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dossier mean? 

• DOSSIER (noun)
  The noun DOSSIER has 1 sense:

1. a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)

  Familiarity information: DOSSIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOSSIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dossier" is a kind of...):

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

 Context examples 

But you have a good dossier there already.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The safe was ajar, and Holmes standing in front of it was removing dossier after dossier, swiftly examining each, and then packing it neatly in Von Bork’s valise.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)