re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē 
plural repositories
1
: a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository
2
: a side altar in a Roman Catholic church where the consecrated Host is reserved from Maundy Thursday until Good Friday
3
: one that contains or stores something nonmaterial
considered the book a repository of knowledge
4
: a place or region richly supplied with a natural resource
5
: a person to whom something is confided or entrusted
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
Examples of repository in a Sentence
Noun
a repository for nuclear waste
He is the repository of many secrets.
She is the repository of her family's history.
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As interest in both the modern graffiti movement and its diasporic reverberations has grown, Wong’s conviction has proved consequential, his collection functioning as a repository.
—Max Lakin, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
The state library pays to offer eBooks and a research database to every library in the state as well as books for the blind, the summer reading program and access to federal document repositories.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
Some of the most popular models on Hugging Face, a global repository of AI models, are built on Qwen.
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Noun
The Common Vulnerability and Exposures, or CVE, repository holds the answers to some of information security's most vital questions.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
As interest in both the modern graffiti movement and its diasporic reverberations has grown, Wong’s conviction has proved consequential, his collection functioning as a repository.
—Max Lakin, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
The state library pays to offer eBooks and a research database to every library in the state as well as books for the blind, the summer reading program and access to federal document repositories.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
Some of the most popular models on Hugging Face, a global repository of AI models, are built on Qwen.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2025
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re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpäz-ə-ˌtōr-ē
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
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