prearchival

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English

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Etymology

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From pre- +‎ archival.

Adjective

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prearchival (not comparable)

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