data bank

noun

a fund of information on a particular subject or group of related subjects, usually stored in and used via a computer system.

database.

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Also, da·ta·bank.

Origin:
1965–70

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data bank

—n
	a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer

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