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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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: Noun As a parting gift, Whitten offered Pampanin a drawing from his repository. — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, "A formerly homeless artist made a gift to Los Angeles. What happened next was a surprise," 4 Apr. 2021 The Oregon Health Authority is the state’s ultimate repository of health information, collecting data from coronavirus testing labs, contact tracers, providers who give COVID-19 shots and countless other entities. — oregonlive, "Oregon lawmakers could strip state of unilateral power to conceal COVID-19 data, other public health information," 4 Apr. 2021 India has also become the fastest-growing market for GitHub with over one million developers having created their first repository on the platform in the last year. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, "How GitHub is democratising coding for developers, students, and startups in India," 26 Mar. 2021 Star may be the repository for all the local and non-Disney-safe content from around the world. — David Bloom, Forbes, "Three Questions For Disney’s Next 100 Million Streaming Subscribers," 10 Mar. 2021 The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is a repository of snapshots cataloging billions of pages across the web. — John Kennedy, Popular Science, "5 sleuthing skills that’ll reveal the age of any web page," 9 Mar. 2021 What was supposed to be a repository for musings on future films instead became an alternating chronicle of their personal lives. — New York Times, "Two Filmmakers Write Their Own Love Story," 7 Feb. 2021 Yes, the public is being denied the truth to which there is infinite value in this case, because another element not clarified or disclosed is a document repository. — Ed Silverman, STAT, "‘The public is being denied the truth’: A legal expert blasts Purdue’s bankruptcy plan to end opioid lawsuits," 19 Mar. 2021 In the new world of cloud, that will probably be your code and code repository. — Jeffrey Ton, Forbes, "Your Cloud Journey Starts With Your Team," 17 Mar. 2021

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