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say it: pawrt-FOH-lee-oh
portfolio is a noun meaning "a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather
“he remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio”
a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers
“the artist had put together a portfolio of his work”
“every actor has a portfolio of photographs”
a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution
“they were disappointed by the poor returns on their stock portfolio”
the role of the head of a government department
“he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for portfolio come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.