data bank

or da·ta·bank (dā′tə-băngk′, dăt′ə-)

2. An organization chiefly concerned with building, maintaining, and using a database.

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data bank

1. (Communications & Information) a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer

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da′ta•base`

or da′ta base`,

a collection of organized, related data, esp. one in electronic form that can be accessed and manipulated by specialized computer software.

[1965–70]

Translations

banque de données

banca dati

data bank

n → banca f dati inv

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Officials from the United Nations and other world relief agencies were on hand to watch the signing of the letter of intent to form the new logistics data bank.

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" An Interior Ministry statement said, "The return of these families came after the completion of all legal procedures, specialized with checking names returning to these areas, according to the data bank that located in Anbar province police headquarters and the Commission, which was formed in order to check the names of returning to those areas," ./ end

Fallujah Police Secures The Return 221 Displaced Families

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Customs Administration says Iran's biggest foreign trade data bank has been operational in the 11th government.

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Both types went up in 2014, but the category of "other"--reports related to unknown settings and those from a combination of the two--dropped in 2014 to keep the overall number from going up again, data from the National Practitioner Data Bank show.

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