dossier

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The last call transcript in the dossier is at 10: 26 p.m. on Nov. 27, between a gunman inside Nariman House and his interlocutor.

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

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  • But the dossier was there; whatever you thought of the secretary, Miss Bracey, who had left rather than be dragged into Hertfordshire, she had been a whizz at filing. —  A Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L Sayers, - [Wimsey-Vane]
  • The Security people have been over his whole dossier, and it all sounds harmless enough. —  Vanishing Point - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 24: 1953
  • Palaniappan Chidambaram said the dossier was "unanswerable," the British newspaper reported. —  SAJAforum
  • The dossier, a copy of which was provided to the New York Times, contains photographs of materials found on the fishing trawler they took: a bottle of Mountain Dew soda packaged in Karachi; pistols that bore the markings of a gun manufacturer in Peshawar; Pakistani-made items like a matchbox, detergent powder and shaving cream. —  Shining Light In Dark Corners
  • The dossier, along with a power-point presentation made to diplomats here, narrates a journey of zeal, foibles and careful planning, one whose blow-by-blow media coverage was followed by handlers, believed to be in Pakistan, and used to caution the gunmen on the ground about the movement of Indian security forces and motivate them to keep fighting. —  Shining Light In Dark Corners
 

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  1. French, from Old French, bundle of papers labeled on the back, from dos, back, from Latin dorsum.

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  1. French, from dos, back.
 

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/dɑsˈɪeɪ/
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