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repository

[ ri-poz-i-tawr-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural re·pos·i·tor·ies.

a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale:
a repository for discarded clothing.
Synonyms: depository, storehouse, depot
an abundant source or supply; storehouse:
a repository of information.
a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.
a burial place; sepulcher.
alsocalledcomma Informal, re·po [ree, -poh]. 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.
Chiefly British. warehouse.

repository

/ rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ; -trɪ /

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

C15: from Latin repositōrium , from repōnere to place

Outdated views on family honor—which see women as its repository—have a lot to answer for.

Now, with Health, Apple will bring a central repository to the entire biometric madness—to the benefit of consumers.

How can you corral all your health data in one central repository—effortlessly?

Other family members approved of the underground repository.

Nobody could object to the way in which the cases were carried from the elevator and set upon stanchions at the repository.

It may be possible to trace out this ancient relique to its present repository, if it be still in existence.

This repository was first disclosed by the action of the lake against a diluvial shore, in which the bones were buried.

Italy was, and still is, the repository of all the chief MSS.

She had been the reluctant repository for the secrets of half her little town.

I desire that the Constitution, the sacred repository of our liberties, be not soiled in my hands.

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