registry
noun
the act of registering; registration.
registries
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pluralof registry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By upgrading marriage registries with chandeliers, flower arches and poetry, local Chinese officials are glamorizing city hall weddings in hopes of encouraging young couples to marry and boost the nation’s declining birthrate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
A government audit of family registries in Japan in 2010 uncovered more than 230,000 people listed as being aged 100 or older who were unaccounted for, some having died decades previously.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
After the quakes, online registries appeared to help find the missing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
The data came from the Geneva registry and the National Agency for Cancer Registration, which compiles information from cantonal cancer registries across Switzerland.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
“One of the Permanent Bureaus of the Internal Administration. Looks out after false registries, unauthorized travel, job-substitutions, forgeries, that sort of thing—trash. That’s what mm/means in gutter-Orgota, trash, it’s a nickname.”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
