archive

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ extensive, massive, rich, vast

▪ historical

▪ data, film, news, newspaper, photo, photographic, sound

▪

The recordings are preserved in the museum's sound archives.

▪ digital, electronic, online

▪ searchable

▪ email, Internet, Web

▪ county (esp. BrE), family, local, national, personal, private, public, state

VERB + ARCHIVE

▪ build, build up, create, set up

▪

We are collecting documents to build up an archive.

▪ house, keep, maintain

▪

the person responsible for keeping the archives

▪

the building which houses the state archives

▪ open

▪

There were ambitious plans to open the archives to the public.

▪ access

▪ check, consult, examine, look through, search

ARCHIVE + VERB

▪ contain sth, hold sth, include sth

ARCHIVE + NOUN

▪ collection

▪ film (esp. BrE), footage

▪

archive footage of the victory celebrations

▪ material

▪ file, page (both computing)

PREPOSITION

▪ among the archives

▪

There are many clues hidden among the archives of the local museum.

▪ from an/the archive

▪

some photographs from the library's archives

▪ in an/the archive

▪

No record of this letter exists in the archives.

▪

The data is now held in the company archives.

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verb

Archive is used with these nouns as the object: ↑email