a collection of documents that contain information about a person, an event or a subject synonym file材料汇编;卷宗;档案 Extra ExamplesThe dossier contained details of every meeting the two men had attended. 这份档案包含了这两个人参加的每一次会议的细节。 The group compiled a dossier of patients' complaints. 该团体将病人的投诉汇编成册。 They kept dossiers on all trade union members. 他们保存着所有工会会员的档案。
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French, denoting a bundle of papers with a label on the back, from dos ‘back’, based on Latin dorsum.