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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Robin Wright, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
The best ideas now emerge not just from Harvard Business Review or McKinsey reports but from research labs, GitHub repositories, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, expert newsletters, research papers, product announcements and many other sources.
—John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Many of the bad queries came from agents or analysts running routine checks for information in all the F.B.I.’s databases at once, without thinking about the additional limits on the 702 repository.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 20 May 2025
The desert is the perfect setting for this reflection, as the arid location functions as both a repository for overwhelming feelings and a reminder of our own smallness in the grand scheme of things.
—Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
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Noun
Ward 209 has been a repository for detainees leveraged as pawns in Iran’s sadistic foreign policy.
—Robin Wright, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
The best ideas now emerge not just from Harvard Business Review or McKinsey reports but from research labs, GitHub repositories, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, expert newsletters, research papers, product announcements and many other sources.
—John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Many of the bad queries came from agents or analysts running routine checks for information in all the F.B.I.’s databases at once, without thinking about the additional limits on the 702 repository.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 20 May 2025
The desert is the perfect setting for this reflection, as the arid location functions as both a repository for overwhelming feelings and a reminder of our own smallness in the grand scheme of things.
—Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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repository
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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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