dossier

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɑs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɔ.si.eɪ/, /ˈdɑ.si.eɪ/, /-si.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒs.i.eɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

dossier (plural dossiers)

1. A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
   • 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:

     For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

• Dosreis

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /dɔˈʃeː/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /dɔˈsiːr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: dos‧sier

dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)

1. dossier
2. file, physical collection of documentation

• → Indonesian: dosir

Inherited from Middle French dossier. By surface analysis, dos (“back(side)”) +‎ -ier.

• IPA^(key): /do.sje/

• Audio:

  (file)

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
2. dossier
3. (computing) folder
4. an organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder
5. (figuratively) case, notably legal

• dosseret m
• doss m

• 
  Dossiers de chaises.
• 
  Boîte destinée à contenir des documents formant un dossier.
• 
  Symbole associé à un dossier informatique.

dossier (feminine dossière, masculine plural dossiers, feminine plural dossières)

1. (colloquial) embarrassing

• “dossier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

• IPA^(key): /dosˈsje/^**
• Rhymes: -e

dossier m (invariable)

1. dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

• dissero, ordisse, rodessi

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier, from Middle French dossier.

• IPA^(key): /dɔˈsjɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: do‧ssier

dossier n (indeclinable)

1. dossier (collection of documents related to a person or situation)

   Synonyms: akta, dokumentacja

• dossier in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dossier in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. Alternative spelling of dossiê

• dosier

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

• IPA^(key): /doˈsjeɾ/ [d̪oˈsjeɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: dos‧sier

dossier m (plural dossieres)

1. dossier

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “dossier”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28