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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A collection of papers giving detailed information about a particular person or subject.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A bundle of writings or documents relating to some one matter or subject, inclosed in a wrapper and briefed on the back; the ‘papers in the case.’

Wiktionary

  1. n. A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A bundle containing the papers in reference to some matter.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French dossier (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, bundle of papers labeled on the back, from dos, back, from Latin dorsum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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