depository

[dih-poz-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

noun

plural

depositories 

1. a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping.

   the night depository of a bank.

2. a depositary; trustee.

adjective

1. of or relating to a depository or depositories.

   the depository role of a bank.

depository

/ -trɪ, dɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ /

noun

1. a store, such as a warehouse, for furniture, valuables, etc; repository

2. a variant spelling of depositary

Other Word Forms

• nondepository adjective
• predepository noun
• subdepository noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of depository¹

1650–60; depository ( def. 1 ) < Medieval Latin dēpositōrium; depository ( def. 2 ) deposit + -ory ¹ (noun use of adj. suffix)

Word History and Origins

Origin of depository¹

C17 (in the sense: place of a deposit): from Medieval Latin dēpositōrium ; C18 (in the sense: depositary): see _deposit , _-ory ¹

Example Sentences

Neither Euroclear nor EU countries want to be seen as unreliable depositories of foreign wealth.

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The issue is the nature of the credit itself, as nonfinancial depository institution loans, or NFDIs, can be murky, funding less-transparent borrowers like hedge funds for their own financial activities.

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Luckey and his collaborators plan to focus the bank’s business on loans and depository services to much of the same clientele as Silicon Valley Bank, according to people familiar with the matter.

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As of now, the only federal agency that explicitly monitors banks and other depository institutions for abusing consumers is on life support.

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Officials arrested a worker in the book depository building named Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and Marxist sympathizer who at one point tried to become a citizen of the Soviet Union.

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Related Words

• cache 
• repository 
• storehouse