repository
Americannoun
plural
repositories-
a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale.
a repository for discarded clothing.
- Synonyms:
- depository, storehouse, depot
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an abundant source or supply; storehouse.
a repository of information.
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a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.
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a burial place; sepulcher.
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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.
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Chiefly British. warehouse.
noun
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a place or container in which things can be stored for safety
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a place where things are kept for exhibition; museum
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a place where commodities are kept before being sold; warehouse
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a place of burial; sepulchre
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a receptacle containing the relics of the dead
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a person to whom a secret is entrusted; confidant
Etymology
Origin of repository
1475–85; < Latin repositōrium that in which anything is placed; reposit, -tory 2
Example Sentences
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Instead of writing, he became an accumulator of a vast amount of other writers’ work — in his library as well as the repository in his head.
From Los Angeles Times
The three firms collect credit records on borrowers, though their data repositories somewhat differ.
You can find articles validating whatever you think in the online repository of human information on the internet that is readily available to anyone with a smart phone.
From Salon
I thought of what the travel writer Aatish Taseer wrote in his book, “A Return to Self,” about revisiting Istanbul, “the perfectly preserved repository of the hopes, ambitions and confusions of my twenty-five-year-old self.”
“Through the work of OHP, the Academy has also become the primary preservation repository for filmmaker interviews from the guilds and other sources,” notes the organization’s website.
From Los Angeles Times
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