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Dossier vs Repository - What's the difference?

dossier | repository |

As nouns the difference between dossier and repository

is that dossier is while repository is a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

dossier

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2004 , date=April 15 , author= , title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , work=The Scotsman 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. }}

    repository

    Noun

    (repositories)
  • a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
  • # (computing) a storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system
  • a burial vault
  • a person to whom a secret is entrusted
  • Synonyms

    * (location for storage) depository, archive