Definition of repositorynext
as in warehouse
a building for storing goods nurses going back and forth to the medication repository

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Recent Examples of repository This repository includes information on the 1966 bond referendum that raised $825,000 to buy 204 acres from the city of San Diego that, along with another 30 acres in the area, became Kit Carson. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026 Our planet’s inhabitants speak more than 7,000 languages, each a unique repository of knowledge, culture and history. Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 July 2026 This study is currently available to view as a pre-print on the paper repository arXiv. Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 July 2026 The character is introduced leaving the heavily secure FBI repository of child pornography — the gloomy inner sanctum of the gloomy basement. Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for repository
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Noun
  • Former homes are now occupied by spice warehouses and stores selling antiques and handicrafts.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Westside Paper is a 15-acre project across from the King Plow Arts Center that repurposed a large warehouse once home to Atlanta Paper Co.
    Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Those jobs belong to a separate custodian, who manages the retirement account paperwork, and a depository, who keeps the metals secure.
    USA Today, USA Today, 21 July 2026
  • This was the first trading day in Korea since SK Hynix listed American depository receipts on the Nasdaq.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 July 2026
Noun
  • It’s been less than a year since Georgia Power’s regulator said the utility could double the size of its power grid and build new power plants, solar arrays and battery storage because of all the data centers slated to come here.
    Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 31 July 2026
  • China understood that control over energy storage materials would translate into industrial leverage.
    Dennis Calvert, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repository. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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