registry
Americannoun
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the act of registering; registration.
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a place where a register is kept; an office of registration.
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the state of being registered.
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the nationality of a merchant ship as shown on its register.
noun
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a place where registers are kept, such as the part of a church where the bride and groom sign a register after a wedding
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the registration of a ship's country of origin
a ship of Liberian registry
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another word for registration
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Etymology
Origin of registry
First recorded in 1475–85; regist(er) + -ry
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There were also concerns listed in the analysis that the registry, which dates back to 1947, could include LGBTQ+ offenders from decades ago who were convicted of offenses that are no longer crimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Some 51,000 people were missing as of Friday afternoon, according to a crowdsourced online registry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The registry "represents an ambitious attempt to turn the principles into practice and make consent more accessible and feasible, to make rights more transparent, and to make trust more scalable", Maydell said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
"Give that the Cameroon registry had delisted Smyrtos before she sailed through the Channel there were definitely reasonable grounds to suspect the vessel was without nationality," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
A mere ten days ago, after rooting around on the Internet for a little while, Molly located a cache of adoption registry services, narrowing her search to the one rated highest among users.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
Two of my siblings are getting married this year, which means I’ve been thinking more than usual about wedding registries — that peculiar exercise in imagining a future life.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026
Treasury, Emirati firms handle by far the world’s highest volume of Iran’s shadow funds, exploiting opaque registries and lax rules to keep Tehran solvent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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
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