repository

[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee]

noun

plural

repositories 

1. a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale.

   a repository for discarded clothing.

   Synonyms: depository, storehouse, depot

2. an abundant source or supply; storehouse.

   a repository of information.

3. a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.

4. a burial place; sepulcher.

5. Informal, repo. Computers.,  a collection of stored data or software, or the place where it is stored, often a proprietary site in the cloud.

   The company hosts a cloud-based repository to help software developers store, track, and manage changes to their code.

6. Chiefly British.,  warehouse.

repository

/ rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ, -trɪ /

noun

1. a place or container in which things can be stored for safety

2. a place where things are kept for exhibition; museum

3. a place where commodities are kept before being sold; warehouse

4. a place of burial; sepulchre

5. a receptacle containing the relics of the dead

6. a person to whom a secret is entrusted; confidant

Word History and Origins

Origin of repository¹

1475–85; < Latin repositōrium that in which anything is placed; reposit, -tory ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of repository¹

C15: from Latin repositōrium , from repōnere to place

Example Sentences

Whatever repositories of learning that weren’t destroyed now exist on higher ground in the mountains, where the “knowledge base and collective memory were largely preserved.”

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"Organisations need to understand that AI is a repository of confidential information that requires protection, just like any other form of storage system," said Nivedita Murthy, senior security consultant at cyber-security firm Black Duck.

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Her show isn’t a repository of safety tips and travel hacks.

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"I would keep a repository of tunes ready with me, waiting for the right moment to unleash them on the world," he said in an interview earlier this year.

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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said the Tories must not become a "repository of disenchantment", but instead be about "offering hope".

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Related Words

• archive 
• depository 
• storehouse