prearchival

adj

prearchival

adj

Etymology From pre- + archival.

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:

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