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document

2 verb
     
Related topics: Communications
doc‧u‧ment2 [transitive]
1TC to write about something, film it, or take photographs of it, in order to record information about it
document how/what etc
His research documents how the crisis occurred.
2 to support an opinion, argument etc with recorded facts
be well/extensively/poorly etc documented
It is well documented that men die younger than women.
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