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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Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Increasingly, stablecoins are viewed as a method of payment and not merely as a repository for digital cash.
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Cross-reference the two sites gives you a shot. Classmates.com is a repository of yearbook scans, which can give you a roster of hundreds of people worth calling.
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Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center Iran’s most likely repository of near bomb-grade nuclear fuel is stored at a complex outside the ancient capital of Isfahan.
—Bora Erden, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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Noun
Around half of global trade and almost 90 percent of global foreign exchange transactions are conducted in U.S. dollars, an extraordinary repository of value that affords Washington the luxury of deficit spending that would be outrageous anywhere else.
—Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Increasingly, stablecoins are viewed as a method of payment and not merely as a repository for digital cash.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Cross-reference the two sites gives you a shot. Classmates.com is a repository of yearbook scans, which can give you a roster of hundreds of people worth calling.
—Brendan O’Meara 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center Iran’s most likely repository of near bomb-grade nuclear fuel is stored at a complex outside the ancient capital of Isfahan.
—Bora Erden, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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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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