'portfolios' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a collection of investments or a collection of documents, such as a collection of a person's work or qualifications. For example: "She brought her portfolio to the job interview to demonstrate her work experience to the interviewer."
"His mind was right across all the portfolios.
Ministers who might have forseen impending disasters were left astonishingly ignorant of major developments in their portfolios.
Devolution in Northern Ireland, as expected, has brought some tough ministerial decisions, particularly those belonging to the big two parties who own the lion's share of ministerial portfolios.
In between moans about there being "too many bleedin' foreigners" and who they had in the back of the cab once, Irish cabbies, particularly Dublin drivers, couldn't wait to tell you about their property portfolios.
This condition is vague, weak and ineffective given the energy mix present in most fossil fuel companies' portfolios.
These along with a host of other significant actions across many portfolios, have been the mark of a truly reforming Labor Government.
"It was the first country in the region to appoint a woman prime minister We have a visionary leader who has no qualms about giving ministerial portfolios – tourism, secondary and higher education – to women," she adds.
The Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, took five portfolios: information, housing, higher education, youth and manpower.
There is little sense that Charles feels anything other than entitled to weigh in with secretaries of state and ministers holding portfolios that matter to him.
Many of the missing portfolios turned up in the very wide brief of new social services minister Kevin Andrews, who has responsibility for all aged care, disability programmes, housing, all income-support payments and pensions, all settlement services for migrants and refugees and also multicultural affairs.
