depositary
Americannoun
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a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
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a variant spelling of depository
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Etymology
Origin of depositary
1595–1605; < Late Latin dēpositārius a trustee, equivalent to Latin dēposit ( us ) ( see deposit) + -ārius -ary
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American depositary receipts of Li Auto were recently about 1% lower in premarket trading after the results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
In London trading Friday morning, Samsung’s global depositary receipts were trading 0.58% higher at $4850 while SK Hynix ADRs were indicating 2.5% better at $167.11 in premarket U.S. trading.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
At the time it said that despite the scale and depth of U.S. capital markets, switching its listing or having a sponsored American depositary receipts program wouldn’t offer better value for shareholders at that time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The company, a key supplier to AI chip giant Nvidia, said it had sold 177.9 million American depositary shares for $149 each.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Now, a father loves an obedient child, and will make such a child more the depositary of his thoughts and plans.
From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Charles Henry Mackintosh
Before the suppression of the friars, the convents were the great depositaries of this species of treasure.
From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous
He felt they were safe depositaries, just as he would have felt a lonely spot in a wood a secure hiding-place for whatever he wanted to conceal.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
These last claimed to be the165 exclusive depositaries of religious knowledge and divine wisdom; they administered justice and monopolised benefices.
From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field
The leading inquiry in the examination of any system of government must, of course, concern primarily the real depositaries and the essential machinery of power.
From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson
Mr. Spence is directed to confer with Messrs. Fraser, Trenholm & Co. who had previously been made our depositaries at Liverpool....
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
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