depositary

American  

[dih-poz-i-ter-ee] / dɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɛr i /

noun

• depositaries
  plural

1. one to whom anything is given in trust.

2. depository.

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adjective

1. depository.

depositary British  

/ dɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ, -trɪ /

noun

1. a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation

2. a variant spelling of depository

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• depositaries
  plural

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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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Example Sentences

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depositary depositaries

There is also an American depositary receipt for the company.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Profit was equivalent to MXN0.41 a share or $0.47 an American depositary receipt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Merck said it is offering $20 in cash for each American depositary share for Nasdaq-listed Silence Therapeutics, more than double the target’s closing price as of Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

SK Hynix, which conducted an IPO of U.S. shares in July and trades on the Nasdaq, saw its American depositary receipts rise 4% in premarket action Wednesday following the buyback announcement.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

All executive authority to be exercised under it was granted to the President, and he was hence spoken of by the writers of the "Federalist" as the sole depositary of executive power.

From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren

He sought for another topic, and hit upon sport as one more congenial to the tastes of the depositaries of public trust.

From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s

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

But life can progress only by means of the living, which are its depositaries.

From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell

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

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

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