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a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject — usually a person's record- I've studied her dossier.
- According to his dossier, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov had been sentenced for high treason.Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- The package is supposed to be a long dossier of everything you've done as a SEAL.Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
- Jessica looked, recognizing the face from her Duke's dossiers.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- He pointed the flashlight at each of us and spoke as if quoting some secret dossier.Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Edgar had many enemies-for-life and the way to deal with such people was to compile massive dossiers.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- We were in the process of compiling that all-important dossier of shared experiences now.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- Your patient's mother, as I learn from the dossier and you might have learned from Glubose, is a good example.C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- Four months ago, the Chinese government accepted our dossier.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- A pair of semi-coded dossiers accompanied the photographs.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- Every Priory historian and Grail buff had read the Dossiers.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Then with the individual Medusa dossiers, damn it!Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- Sir Alistair has already prepared a dossier for you.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- Mike amigo mio, there should be in that file a dossier on me.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- It reminded her that, according to his dossier, Marco Angelini spent a large part of his time in Italy.J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
- Please bear in mind that I've only recently been assigned, with full clearance, to Mr Webb's classified dossier.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- Nowhere in that very creative dossier was there the slightest clue of a Washington connection.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- I am going to Rome with a wonderful dossier and letters of introduction that cover every capital in Europe, and there will be "no small stir" when I get there.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- They lifted it, and flung it on one side of the hall where it rolled over, scattering a cascade of letters, dossiers, ink-pots, pens, sealing-wax and documents.C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
- In Zooey, be assured early, we are dealing with the complex, the overlapping, the cloven, and at least two dossier-like paragraphs ought to be got in right here.J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
dossier = a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject — usually a person's record