database
noun
da·ta·base
ˈdā-tə-ˌbās 
ˈda-,
also ˈdä-
computers
: a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer)
an online database
database
transitive verb
Examples of database in a Sentence
All of our customers' information was kept in a database.
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The Townley thefts were facilitated by the fact that curators had never fully recorded many of the objects in internal catalogues or databases.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Teran’s defense attorney, James Spertus, said his client is being prosecuted for uploading the information to a database of law enforcement officers whose credibility could be called into question at trial.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Teran’s defense attorney, James Spertus, said his client is being prosecuted for uploading the information to a database of law enforcement officers whose credibility could be called into question at trial.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
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database
noun
da·ta·base
ˈdāt-ə-ˌbās
ˈdat-,
also ˈdät-
: a collection of data that is organized especially to be used by a computer
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