e formal record of accessions of archival material received by an archives service, in which information on the immed
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source and the broader provenance of the material is preserved permanently. [Computer and Information Sciences] 
n., The obligation to answer or answer for discharge of duties or conduct. [General Dictionaries] 
n., Acquired records whose authenticity and feasibility of preservation have been confirmed and have been registered in an accession record. [Archives] 
v., The formal acceptanc