archived

1. 1
   adjective

   Placed and kept in an archive: a collection of records, documents, or data preserved for future reference.

   All archived correspondence remains accessible to researchers through the library's database.

   The committee reviewed several archived reports before reaching its decision.

   Similarpreserved

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of archive.

   The library archived thousands of newspapers during the digitization project.

   Once the case closed, the firm archived every related file.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs here. It is the simple past (the firm archived the files) and, after have or be, the participle (the files have been archived; they were archived last year). The verb is transitive, so something is always being archived. That is why the passive is so natural when who did the storing does not matter. Placed before a noun, the same form becomes the adjective for stored records, as in archived reports.

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