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
Synonyms
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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
But last month, the company disclosed that Midnight Blizzard also accessed Microsoft’s source code repositories after pilfering the corporate emails.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
Devin, for instance, resolved only 14 percent of a subset of GitHub issues from real-world code repositories.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
There have been trillions of dollars invested in ESG repositories, and major financial managers like Vanguard and BlackRock have had various ESG funds for consumers to stow their money in.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 3 Apr. 2024
Read on to learn how to build a repository of insights that allows both current and future team members to leverage valuable lessons, improve future strategies and campaigns and collectively drive an agency’s overall success.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
But reformers — including both progressive Democrats and libertarian-minded Republicans — want to add a requirement that officials must get a warrant before querying the repository for the contents of Americans’ communications.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
For example, the library is the repository for the Frank Herbert papers.
—Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2024
No longer just a repository for resumes, LinkedIn is seeing explosive growth in user engagement, reporting a 41 percent growth in content posted between the spring of 2021 and the spring of 2023.
—Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
Noun
For example, Nadella bought LinkedIn, a player in social media, which Microsoft had entirely missed, and later bought GitHub, a repository of open-source code, which Microsoft had previously despised.
—Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
But last month, the company disclosed that Midnight Blizzard also accessed Microsoft’s source code repositories after pilfering the corporate emails.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
Devin, for instance, resolved only 14 percent of a subset of GitHub issues from real-world code repositories.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
There have been trillions of dollars invested in ESG repositories, and major financial managers like Vanguard and BlackRock have had various ESG funds for consumers to stow their money in.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 3 Apr. 2024
Read on to learn how to build a repository of insights that allows both current and future team members to leverage valuable lessons, improve future strategies and campaigns and collectively drive an agency’s overall success.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
But reformers — including both progressive Democrats and libertarian-minded Republicans — want to add a requirement that officials must get a warrant before querying the repository for the contents of Americans’ communications.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
For example, the library is the repository for the Frank Herbert papers.
—Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2024
No longer just a repository for resumes, LinkedIn is seeing explosive growth in user engagement, reporting a 41 percent growth in content posted between the spring of 2021 and the spring of 2023.
—Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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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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