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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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
Another reason that may serve to contract the premium would be the possible U.S. listing of a depositary receipt for Samsung Electronics, Korea’s largest stock and a direct competitor for SK Hynix in many areas.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The South Korean memory company’s new American depositary receipts begin trading on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
American depositary receipts of SK Hynix soared 13% Friday as the South Korean chip maker pulled off a $26.5 billion U.S. share sale, the largest by a foreign company in history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Reverence for the literal Scripture in its primitive language was the corner-stone of the Gideonite Church; and for all practical purposes, its one depositary and exponent for them was the Apostle himself.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
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 Flaubert, Gustave
The apostles were the depositaries of these goods, and had under their orders ministers or servants, known by the name of deacons, charged with the distribution of alms.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'
The intellectual and moral character of the men who were the original depositaries of Christian faith and literature is then evidently of the utmost importance.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini
Among the Maories and their Polynesian kinsmen the priests are the great depositaries of tradition.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
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 Lever, Charles James
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