Dictionaries] 
n., The office given the formal competence for maintaining the authoritative version or copy of records belonging to a given class within a classification scheme. [Archives] 
n.,
 The corporate body or administrative unit in which a group of records are created or received and accumulated in the conduct of its business. [Archives] 
n., The office given the formal competence for maintaining the authoritative (that is, official) records belonging to a given class
within an integrated classifica