dossier

Etymology

Borrowed from French dossier.

noun

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.
   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. April 15, 2004, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman