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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Andrew Ackerman, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
Other projects in Phillips’ and evo’s portfolio, among many, include revitalizing a 100-year-old mattress factory in Seattle, the historic Tahoe City Inn building in California, and evo’s Portland location, which transformed a former Salvation Army building built in 1890.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026
As for the Tesla Model S and X, the reasons are less straightforward, since Tesla doesn't have a large portfolio to begin with.
—Charles Singh, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
The British royal family's real estate portfolio includes plenty of palatial estates, but not all properties need be huge in order to retain symbolic—or sentimental—value.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Portfolio.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portfolio. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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