dossier
A1#643Hear it
noun
- back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
- dossier
- folder
- an organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder
- case, notably legal
adjective
- embarrassing
Used in the library
- Le poste demande de l'autonomie. Vous seriez seul sur plusieurs dossiers.The position requires independence. You would be alone on several files.B1Une entrevue à Québec — A job interview in Québec
- L'armée refuse de rouvrir le dossier. Esterhazy est acquitté en trois minutes.The army refuses to reopen the case. Esterhazy is acquitted in three minutes.B2L'affaire Dreyfus — The Dreyfus affair
- «Au reste, continua le cardinal en posant la main sur une liasse de papiers, j’ai là tout un dossier qui vous concerne; mais avant de le lire, j’ai voulu causer avec vous."In the rest," continued the cardinal, placing his hand on a bundle of papers, "I have here a whole file that concerns you; but before I read it, I wanted to talk with you.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- D’Artagnan crut d’abord qu’il avait affaire à quelque juge examinant son dossier, mais il s’aperçut que l’homme de bureau écrivait ou plutôt corrigeait des lignes d’inégales longueurs, en scandant des mots sur ses doigts; il vit qu’il était en face d’un poète.At first, Artagnan believed that he was dealing with some judge examining his case, but he noticed that the officeman was writing or rather correcting lines of unequal length, chanting words on his fingers; he saw that he was in front of a poet.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires