All 6 Uses
dossier
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
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- Do we have a dossier on these guerrillas?†
- In the endless estuarial mingling of paranoia and control, the dossier was an essential device.†
- Edgar had many enemies-for-life and the way to deal with such people was to compile massive dossiers.†
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- The dossier was a deeper form of truth, transcending facts and actuality.†
- Where the current of one's need for control met the tide of one's paranoia, this was where the dossier was reciprocally satisfying.†
- They were in the files of course, a number of those involved in planning the event—all catalogued and dossier'd up to their eyeballs and none of them eager to offend the Director.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(dossier) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject -- often a person's record
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)