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 a collection of historical documents or records of a government, a family, a place or an organization; the place where these records are stored: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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for archive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does archive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — archive appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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