repository

noun

re·pos·i·to·ry | \ ri-ˈpä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē

plural repositories

Definition of repository

(Entry 1 of 2)

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

repository

adjective

Definition of repository (Entry 2 of 2)

of a drug

: designed to act over a prolonged period repository penicillin

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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: Noun

The purpose of the Arch Mission Foundation is to send repositories of human knowledge into strategic locations in space. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "A Crashed Spacecraft Might Have Put Earth’s Most Indestructible Organisms on the Moon," 8 Aug. 2019 Few regions of the country have been endowed with such a rich repository of water, land and minerals, or have seen natural resources so grossly mismanaged, than the three states and 50 counties along the first 180 miles of the Ohio. — Keith Schneider, ProPublica, "West Virginia Bets Big on Plastics, and on Backing of Trump Administration," 31 July 2019 Several sources have confirmed that the vault did indeed house a vast repository of original master recordings by innumerable artists. — Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, "Universal Music Group, in initial count, cites only 22 masters lost in fire," 17 July 2019 The fossil remains were lifted from a cliff terrace quarry onto flatbed trailers and were taken to a federal repository on the college’s Craig campus. — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, "Helicopter helps haul dinosaur fossils in northwestern Colorado," 11 July 2019 And over the years, my house has become a house of things, a repository of my collections. — Susan Harlan, Curbed, "The dish store that is my home away from home," 11 July 2019 With Perot running outside the two-party system, his candidacies became the repository of frustrations from every corner of American life. — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, "Ross Perot, a Morning Star of Trumpism," 9 July 2019 Detective Ryan Gramillion used genetic genealogy to find a match from a public repository of DNA samples. — Pauline Repard, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Oregon man to face trial in 2006 La Mesa slaying using a sword," 19 June 2019 This karst cave system harbors fascinating geological formations, footprints of prehistoric humans, and a repository of 25,000-year-old bear skeletons. — National Geographic, "Italy: Hidden Treasures of the Northwest," 12 June 2019

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