portfolio
noun
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Portfolio is partly based on the Latin folium, meaning "leaf, sheet". A portfolio usually represents a portable showcase of your talents. Today actual portfolios are used less than they used to be by artists, since most commercial artists have a website dedicated to showing off their art. But portfolio in its other common meaning is extremely common. Not so long ago, a broker would keep each of his or her clients' investments in a separate notebook or portfolio. Today the investment portfolio, like an artist's portfolio, usually takes the form of a Web page, even though everyone still uses the same old word.
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Jeff Marks, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2025
The farm is one of seven Focus Farms in the Duchy of Cornwall's portfolio, and the campaign aims to share knowledge and information in the transition to greener farming methods.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Nerds debuted in 1983, part of a portfolio of candies marketed under the Wonka name, a nod to the fictional candy entrepreneur created by author Roald Dahl.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
Today, there are 25 in the portfolio, stretching from a conical roofed show-stopper in Puglia to a lush, terraced hideaway in Phuket.
—Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Portfolio.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portfolio. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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