Dossier vs Docket - What's the difference?
dossier | docket |
A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
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(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
(legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
(legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
An agenda of things to be done.
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
To make an entry in a docket.
To label a parcel etc.
To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between dossier and docket
is that dossier is a collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content while docket is a summary; a brief digest.As a verb docket is
to make an entry in a docket.dossier
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=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. }}
docket
English
(wikipedia docket)Noun
(en noun)See also
*Verb
(en verb)- to docket goods
- to docket letters and papers
- (Chesterfield)
- judgments regularly docketed