Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A portable case for holding material, such as loose papers, photographs, or drawings.
- n. The materials collected in such a case, especially when representative of a person's work: a photographer's portfolio; an artist's portfolio of drawings.
- n. The office or post of a cabinet member or minister of state.
- n. A group of investments held by an investor, investment company, or financial institution.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A movable receptacle for detached papers or prints, usually in the form of complete book-cover with a flexible back, and fastened with strings or clasps.
- n. Figuratively, the office of a minister of state: as, he holds the portfolio of education (that is, he has charge of the documents, etc., connected with that department); he has received the portfolio of the home department.
Wiktionary
- n. A case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents.
- n. The collection of such documents, especially the works of an artist or photographer.
- n. politics The post and the responsibilities of a cabinet minister or other head of a government department.
- n. The group of investments and other assets held by an investor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A portable case for holding loose papers, prints, drawings, etc.
- n. Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state or member of the cabinet
WordNet 3.0
- n. a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution
- n. the role of the head of a government department
- n. a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather
- n. a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers
Etymologies
- From Italian portafoglio; cognate with the French portefeuille ("folder, wallet"), from the Latin verb portare ("to carry") and folium ("sheet"). The meaning "collection of responsibilities" came by extension in the 1930s. (Wiktionary)
- Italian portafoglio : porta-, from portare, to carry, from Latin portāre; see per-2 in Indo-European roots + foglio, sheet (from Latin folium, leaf; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term portfolio management refers to any strategy that protects profits, creates a range of choices, or reduces market risks.”
“Steve, another product area just as another example, current limit switches, we have done a very good job of expanding our product into what we call portfolio which is described as a part that can go into many applications, many customers, and the current limit switch line has grown significantly going after.”
“Paying 1.5% or so on such a portfolio is then a small price to pay.”
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“It's a joint venture of the New York Stock Exchange and the Depository Trust Clearing Corporation--two longstanding institutions in finance in New York that wanted to build a derivatives clearinghouse to take advantage of what we call portfolio margining.”
“The highly complementary nature of these two parts of our portfolio is at the heart of our competitive advantage.”
“Building a portfolio is an important step in becoming a successful writer.”
“I think adding a little breadth to your portfolio is a good thing, even if it means more work for a while.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - “The Feeler” making a come back?
“Contemplating the thoughts I shared with you two weeks ago, I started to wonder which would have a greater effect on ROI, how well you are allocated across broad media types (what I called portfolio management), versus how well you execute within each of those media types.”
ROI is All in the Execution, Not Just in the Allocation - Bill Harvey - MediaBizBlogger
“Now that's what I call a portfolio," you may mutter.”
“We have a term portfolio of new designs for women, men and children, a shoe for every occasion, a shoe for every youth.”
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