registry

[rej-uh-stree]

noun

plural

registries 

1. the act of registering; registration.

2. a place where a register is kept; an office of registration.

3. register.

4. the state of being registered. registered.

5. the nationality of a merchant ship as shown on its register.

registry

/ ˈrɛdʒɪstrɪ /

noun

1. a place where registers are kept, such as the part of a church where the bride and groom sign a register after a wedding

2. the registration of a ship's country of origin

   a ship of Liberian registry

3. another word for registration

Word History and Origins

Origin of registry¹

First recorded in 1475–85; regist(er) + -ry

Example Sentences

With a woefully incomplete land registry at the time, ownership across much of Greece was unclear.

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It cited the example of Panama -- one of the world's largest ship registries -- which has agreed to remove all vessels under EU sanctions.

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The samples came from the TwinsUK cohort, the UK's largest adult twin registry, which provided a well-documented and diverse population for comparison.

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The union has also pushed for the additional hiring of more staff, and proposed an internal registry of on-call union nurses, so that the company doesn’t rely on contracted traveling nurses.

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“People are afraid that the whole family might be wiped out from the civil registry, as they say, if everyone is gathered in one place.”

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