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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IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026
The study was published this month on the open-access repository ArXiv and accepted for publication in The Planetary Science Journal.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026
Yet one thing all three have in common are their respective presidential libraries, which — as this week’s Cheryl Hall cover story highlights — are more than just brick-and-mortar historical repositories.
—Dallas Morning News, 22 Feb. 2026
Some of that information is required to be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank, a central repository that healthcare organizations can access.
—Amber Gaudet
updated February 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
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Noun
The company minimizes the collection of personal data to avoid becoming a data repository.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026
The study was published this month on the open-access repository ArXiv and accepted for publication in The Planetary Science Journal.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026
Yet one thing all three have in common are their respective presidential libraries, which — as this week’s Cheryl Hall cover story highlights — are more than just brick-and-mortar historical repositories.
—Dallas Morning News, 22 Feb. 2026
Some of that information is required to be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank, a central repository that healthcare organizations can access.
—Amber Gaudet
updated February 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
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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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