record keepers
Those maintaining files
Record keepers are people or systems that maintain records—documents, data, or accounts preserved for reference.
The term applies across contexts: a company's record keeper tracks employee benefits, a historian serves as record keeper for a community's past.
The monastery's monks were meticulous record keepers.
In finance, a record keeper administers retirement plan accounts.
- bookkeeperFinancial records maintainer
- archivistKeeper of historical documents
- scribeManual document copier
- clerkOffice record-keeper
- file clerkOne who maintains documents
chroniclers · retention schedules · national archives · paleography · file · historian · court reporter · compliance officers · librarian · registrar · stenographers · chain of custody · birth certificate · death certificate · notaries · paper trail · curator · indexes
- office workersreceptionist, office workers, office clerk, accountant, administrator
- recordsGuinness, documents, album, death certificates, files
- Kayasthascribes, endogamy
- organizersdesk organizer, drawer organizer, closet organizer, desk organizers, drawer organizers
- legal professionlawyers, attorneys, solicitors, solicitor, barristers
- preserverslife preserver, life jacket, life vest, buoy, life ring
record keepersdecision-makers
Those with choosing power
executives · commanders · leaders · directors · policymakers
record keepersshredders
Cutting machines for disposal
censors · concealers · falsifiers · redactors · obfuscators
record keepersrevisionists
Those who reexamine accepted views
memory holes · forgetters · iconoclasts · obliterators · Winston Smith
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