portfolio
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English
Etymology
From Italian portafoglio; cognate with French portefeuille (“folder, wallet”), from Latin portāre (“to carry”) and folium (“sheet”). The meaning "collection of responsibilities" came by extension in the 1930s.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/, /-əʊl.jəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /pɔɹtˈfoʊ.liˌoʊ/, /poɹt-/, /-oʊl.joʊ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /poːtˈfəʉ.liˌəʉ/, ,
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /poːtˈfɐʉ.liˌɐʉ/, /-ɐʉl.jɐʉ/
- Rhymes: -əʊljəʊ
Noun
portfolio (plural portfolios)
- A case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents.
- 1837, L E L, “Introduction”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 142:
- He opened an embroidered portfolio; and, from its perfumed depths, took out a letter, which he began to read aloud.
- (by extension) The collection of such documents, especially the works of an artist or photographer.
- (politics) The post and the responsibilities of a cabinet minister or other head of a government department.
- Synonym: ministry
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- (finance) The group of investments and other assets held by an investor.
- 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
- (business) A collection of assets; (figurative) any collection of things considered as investments or assets, (rarely) also liabilities.
- I would like to introduce you to our portfolio of services.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 378:
- In the past, thoughts were too real to be kept like a cultural portfolio of stocks and bonds. But now we have mental assets.
- 1989 February 10, Stephen Fry et al., “Christening”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 5:
- Father: Darling, and no disrespect to you, Vicar, but what I'm thinking is this. How about a mixed portfolio, whereby we spread him through Judaism, Islam, Hindu, and so on, maintaining a firm base in the Church of England?
Mother: It does sound safer.
Father: Exactly.
- 2024 August 18, Jörg Michael Dostal, “Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System”, in The Political Quarterly, volume 95, number 4, , page 644 of 634–644:
- Promising to protect the welfare state while adding further obligations to its portfolio has become customary for SPD and Greens.
- A range of products.
- product portfolio
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Portuguese: portfólio, portfolio, portefólio (Portugal)
Translations
showcase
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collection of assets
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post
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investments
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See also
Further reading
Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English portfolio), ultimately from Italian portafoglio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈportfolio/,
- Rhymes: -io
- Syllabification(key): port‧fo‧li‧o
- Hyphenation(key): port‧fo‧lio
Noun
portfolio
- portfolio (representative collection of the works of an artist, designer, or similar, especially as used to present to potential clients)
Declension
| Inflection of portfolio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | portfolio | portfoliot | |
| genitive | portfolion | portfolioiden portfolioitten | |
| partitive | portfoliota | portfolioita | |
| illative | portfolioon | portfolioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | portfolio | portfoliot | |
| accusative | nom. | portfolio | portfoliot |
| gen. | portfolion | ||
| genitive | portfolion | portfolioiden portfolioitten | |
| partitive | portfoliota | portfolioita | |
| inessive | portfoliossa | portfolioissa | |
| elative | portfoliosta | portfolioista | |
| illative | portfolioon | portfolioihin | |
| adessive | portfoliolla | portfolioilla | |
| ablative | portfoliolta | portfolioilta | |
| allative | portfoliolle | portfolioille | |
| essive | portfoliona | portfolioina | |
| translative | portfolioksi | portfolioiksi | |
| abessive | portfoliotta | portfolioitta | |
| instructive | — | portfolioin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “portfolio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
Pronunciation
Noun
portfolio m (plural portfolios)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English portfolio, from Italian portafoglio. Doublet of portfel.
Pronunciation
Noun
portfolio n (indeclinable)
- portfolio (case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents)