Dossier vs Folder - What's the difference?
dossier | folder |
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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, title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer
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An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.
A machine or person who folds things.
As nouns the difference between dossier and folder
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 folder is an organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.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. }}
folder
English
(wikipedia folder)Noun
(en noun)- I keep all my schoolwork in a yellow folder .
- My essays are in the folder named "Essays"
