repository

[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee]

noun

plural

repositories 

1. a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale.

   a repository for discarded clothing.

   Synonyms: depository, storehouse, depot

2. an abundant source or supply; storehouse.

   a repository of information.

3. a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.

4. a burial place; sepulcher.

5. Informal, repo. Computers.,  a collection of stored data or software, or the place where it is stored, often a proprietary site in the cloud.

   The company hosts a cloud-based repository to help software developers store, track, and manage changes to their code.

6. Chiefly British.,  warehouse.

repository

/ rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ, -trɪ /

noun

1. a place or container in which things can be stored for safety

2. a place where things are kept for exhibition; museum

3. a place where commodities are kept before being sold; warehouse

4. a place of burial; sepulchre

5. a receptacle containing the relics of the dead

6. a person to whom a secret is entrusted; confidant

Word History and Origins

Origin of repository¹

1475–85; < Latin repositōrium that in which anything is placed; reposit, -tory ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of repository¹

C15: from Latin repositōrium , from repōnere to place

Example Sentences

The last version was posted on arXiv, a global repository for unpublished science research, in December.

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Musk's company xAI launched Grokipedia last month to compete with Wikipedia -- a crowdsourced information repository authored by humans that the billionaire and others on the American right have repeatedly accused of ideological bias.

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One was already in place—the Marquand Library, Princeton’s distinguished 500,000-volume repository of art history—and could not be moved.

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Until now, biomedical scientists needed enormous computing resources to search through these vast genetic repositories and compare them with their own data, making comprehensive searches nearly impossible.

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Declining health is forcing Mr. Webb to wind down his data collection, although he is making his repository of data available to anyone who wants to carry forward his project.

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Related Words

• archive 
• depository 
• storehouse