national archives and records administration

1. 1.

   the independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections

   SynonymsNARA

   Broaderindependent agency

Questions about national archives and records administration

What does national archives and records administration mean?

national archives and records administration means "the independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections".

What is another word for national archives and records administration?

Close synonyms include NARA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is national archives and records administration a common word?

national archives and records administration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.