Meaning & use
database
An organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically, typically on a computer system.
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The company keeps all of its customer records in a secure database.
She wrote a query to pull last month's sales figures from the database.
A note on using this word
In casual speech, database can refer either to the stored data itself or to the software system that manages it.
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