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
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
With all the thousands of hours of footage that can be used to create new content, many in the entertainment industry are exploring cloud storage to help serve as a central repository for easy access to content.
—Dave Friend, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
By that point, another member had already cloned the repository to git.suyu.dev.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
But with 2020 a traumatic blur, Trump seems to have become the beneficiary of our collective amnesia, and Biden the repository for lingering emotional discontent.
—George Makari, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
And the company has not registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, a government repository that contains information on medical studies involving human subjects.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
The museum must prepare to return the remains of more than 5,800 Native Americans, many of which were amassed because the institution is the go-to repository in the state for human remains dug up during construction or inadvertently uncovered.
—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Noun
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
With all the thousands of hours of footage that can be used to create new content, many in the entertainment industry are exploring cloud storage to help serve as a central repository for easy access to content.
—Dave Friend, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
By that point, another member had already cloned the repository to git.suyu.dev.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
But with 2020 a traumatic blur, Trump seems to have become the beneficiary of our collective amnesia, and Biden the repository for lingering emotional discontent.
—George Makari, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
And the company has not registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, a government repository that contains information on medical studies involving human subjects.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
The museum must prepare to return the remains of more than 5,800 Native Americans, many of which were amassed because the institution is the go-to repository in the state for human remains dug up during construction or inadvertently uncovered.
—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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repository
adjective
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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