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prearchival

prearchival adjective: before archival.

Adjective

prearchival (not comparable)

  1. Before archival.
    • As the horizons of the archivist expanded, those with greatest perception saw the need for specialists in prearchival stages of record-keeping...1969, Houston Gwynne Jones, The records of a nation: their management, preservation, and use

Origin of prearchival

From pre- + archival.

Questions about prearchival

What does prearchival mean?
Prearchival means before archival.
What part of speech is prearchival?
Prearchival is an adjective.

Words near prearchival in the dictionary

  1. preapprovals
  2. preapprove
  3. preapproved
  4. preapproves
  5. preapproving
  6. prearchival
  7. prearm
  8. prearmed
  9. prearming
  10. prearms
  11. prearrange

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