archive

Universal Words noun, verb noun (also archives [pl.]) a collection of historical documents or records of a government, a family, a place or an organization; the place where these records are stored: the National Sound Archive * archive film * The BBC's archives are bulging with material. verb [VN] 1 to put or store a document or other material in an archive 2 (computing) to move information that is not often needed to a tape or disk to store it