archival

archive | American Dictionary

archive
noun
us/ˈɑr·kɑɪv/(alsoarchives)
the documents showing the history of a place, organization, or family, or the place where these are kept:
The author’s manuscripts are in the college archives.

archival

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ɑrˈkɑɪ·vəl/
I’m doing some archival research on my family’s history.

archive | Business English

archive
noun
uk /ˈɑːkaɪv/us
[ C, usually plural ]
a collection of records that are no longer used:
an archive of financial statements
[ C ] IT
a computer file used to store electronic information or documents that you no longer need to use regularly:
Use your e-mail application's archive feature to transfer messages that are older than six months to an archive file.
[ C ] INTERNET
a set of documents and files that are available on the internet for people to look at:
An online archive exists with all of those reviews.
archive
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈɑːkaɪv/us
to store old records or documents so that you can access them again in the future:
The file was archived about a year ago after a worker wrongly labeled it as inactive.
IT
to store electronic information that you no longer need to use regularly in a special file that uses less space on your computer:
In all, 31,000 archived e-mails thought to have been deleted were later uncovered.

archiving

noun[ U ]
The fragility of the discs means they aren't reliable enough for long-term archiving.

Examples of archive

archive
The second, by a remarkable collection of photographs, some from the university archives and other sources and some specifically produced for the book.
The weather variables of maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall and solar radiation were archived for every crop year.
Even if the archives to which they are linked have been updated, they have not, and their context has changed.
With untiring zeal he ransacked the archives, exhumed scores of documents and edited many of them.
In recent years, artists and composers have been increasingly drawn to historical archive material.
Such archives allow us to assess the impact of world events on the individual.
The original source files must be properly archived in text format for future updating, in addition to the run-time application itself.
Oral accounts and archives (the files which were not pitched into the harbour) provide a much different picture.
Current efforts include the ability to adapt user-specified grammars to work on these archived token lists.
Then there are people in the archive who grew up in complete isolation.
As the classifying and organizing of the archives continued, the catalogue grew accordingly and reached 634 pages in the 1992 edition.
The country's rich intellectual heritage is dispersed among hundreds of libraries and archives across the nation.
Without doubt there are private archives waiting to be identified and used by historians.
Now it is the archive agents' turn to interpret the query, and if necessary to request a clarification or confirmation of an interpretation.
Fortunately many documents, manuscripts, and personal papers with regard to these questions are preserved in the archives of these countries.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations witharchive

archive

These are words often used in combination with archive.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

archive footage
This is perhaps most obvious in those programmes that combine archive footage with period hits, but the device has become common in dramas too.
digital archive
Surely an online digitalarchive is long overdue?
extensive archive
She also kept an extensive archive of documents relating to all aspects of the house's development.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
See all collocations with archive