depository
a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping: the night depository of a bank.
a depositary; trustee.
of or relating to a depository or depositories: the depository role of a bank.
Origin of depository
1Other words from depository
- non·de·pos·i·to·ry, adjective
- pre·de·pos·i·to·ry, noun, plural pre·de·pos·i·to·ries.
- sub·de·pos·i·to·ry, noun, plural sub·de·pos·i·to·ries.
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How to use depository in a sentence
At least at the outset, some banks could serve as depository institutions for state and local governments, meaning those governments would put their money in the local public bank, not JPMorgan.
Exclusive: Rashida Tlaib and AOC have a proposal for a fairer financial system — public banking | Emily Stewart | October 30, 2020 | VoxOnline depositories such as GitHub, Bitbucket, and others already allow the sharing of code.
Can We Trust AI Doctors? Google Health and Academics Battle It Out | Shelly Fan | October 20, 2020 | Singularity HubThis was a building with the enduring ethos of a book depository in a city of book lovers.
America's Public Library Crisis: Who’s Reading the Books? | Jon Reiner | May 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSpecifically, the Banking Integrity Act would separate commercial (depository) and investment banking companies.
At one stroke it opened the entire front of the Sunday-School depository to the light of heaven.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.
But you told this to Marina because of the association of Lee Oswald with the schoolbook depository?
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyAs my husband has told you, he had his back to the School depository Building.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyStill,” ventured Raikes, astonished at this curious rejoinder, “you have some safe depository for such valuables.
The Flaw in the Sapphire | Charles M. SnyderThe aid of both hands was called in to assist in supporting her intellectual depository.
Lands of the Slave and the Free | Henry A. Murray
British Dictionary definitions for depository
/ (dɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ, -trɪ) /
a store, such as a warehouse, for furniture, valuables, etc; repository
a variant spelling of depositary (def. 1)
Origin of depository
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