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PORTFOLIO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The role of the head of a government department
Example:
he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("portfolio" is a kind of...):
function; office; part; role (the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather
Example:
he remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("portfolio" is a kind of...):
case (a portable container for carrying several objects)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution
Example:
they were disappointed by the poor returns on their stock portfolio
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("portfolio" is a kind of...):
list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))
Sense 4
Meaning:
A set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers
Example:
every actor has a portfolio of photographs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("portfolio" is a kind of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
Context examples:
To my friend and neighbor Theodore Laurence I bequeethe my paper mashay portfolio, my clay model of a horse though he did say it hadn't any neck.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As I was going upstairs to fetch my portfolio and pencils, Mrs. Fairfax called to me: "Your morning school-hours are over now, I suppose," said she.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If you don’t have savings or an investment account, and many people don’t, your advisor can be worth his or her weight in gold by helping you start earning money on a small investment portfolio.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The other gentlemen speculated with equal rashness in all sorts of frail trifles, and wandered helplessly about afterward, burdened with wax flowers, painted fans, filigree portfolios, and other useful and appropriate purchases.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Well, fetch me your portfolio, if you can vouch for its contents being original; but don't pass your word unless you are certain: I can recognise patchwork.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mrs. Fairfax folded up her knitting: I took my portfolio: we curtseyed to him, received a frigid bow in return, and so withdrew.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
One day he had had company to dinner, and had sent for my portfolio; in order, doubtless, to exhibit its contents: the gentlemen went away early, to attend a public meeting at Millcote, as Mrs. Fairfax informed me; but the night being wet and inclement, Mr. Rochester did not accompany them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
. . . I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
