SINCE 1828
archiver
noun
ar·chiv·er
| \ ˈär-ˌkī-vər
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plural archivers
Definition of archiver
1
: a person who creates or maintains an archive : archivist
Few architects’ names resonate across the centuries with the force of the 16th-century Italian Andrea Palladio, the great Renaissance archiver of the classical orders and the inventor of the modern villa.— Andrew Ferren, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2009
2
: something (such as a computer program) that is used to create archives
An archiver that doesn’t support searching—on the bodies of messages, as well as on authors and subjects—is close to useless.— Karl Fogel, Producing Open Source Software, 2006
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