recordation

American  

[rek-er-dey-shuhn, ree-kawr-] / ˌrɛk ərˈdeɪ ʃən, ˌri kɔr- /

noun

1. the act or process of recording.

   the recordation of documents pertaining to copyright ownership.

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Etymology

Origin of recordation

1400–50; late Middle English recordacioun originally, the faculty of recollection < Old French recordacion < Latin recordātiōn- (stem of recordātiō ), equivalent to recordāt ( us ) (past participle of recordārī; record ) + -ion- -ion

Example Sentences

The organization’s Virginia division is also exempt from paying recordation taxes, which are levied when property sales are registered for public record.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

“If not for his recordation of this, we would not be able to tell this story today,” Wong-Kalu said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2023

Blair, a graduate of Clemson University, talks about cutting the county’s energy and recordation taxes, which are expected to add just under $250 million to the county’s general fund in 2019.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2018

No voter follows her electronic ballot from the voting booth to its official recordation.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2016

Written compositions remain; but the noblest displays of human genius at the bar—often, perhaps, the successful assaults of Freedom against the fortresses of Despotism—are lost to history and memory for want of needful recordation.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie