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
The company’s American depositary receipts fell 5% in premarket trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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
Farewell, my poor chamber, the depositary of so many hopes and aspirations, regrets, sad thoughts, and air-built castles.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
A small minority of the Cursives, just as a small minority of the Uncials, are probably the depositaries of peculiar recensions.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
It was not known who were the rightful depositaries of power during the interregnum, nor who were possessed of a voice in the election of king.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
Hence, the Priests were required to be intimately acquainted with the Sacred Scripture, because they were the depositaries of God's law, and were its expounders to the people.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons
I said, 'We women have been the depositaries of religious sensibility, but we have also furnished the impregnable storehouse of superstition, sometimes gracious, sometimes desperately cruel and hurtful to our race.'
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
Lands of the same age contain different fossils, just as depositaries very far distant from each other enclose similar ones.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
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