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Repository

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Noun

1. deposit, depositary, depository, repository

a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping

2. repository, secretary

a person to whom a secret is entrusted

3. monument, repository

a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Repository

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noun plural -ries
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

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Repository

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nounWord forms: plural reˈposiˌtories
1. 
a box, chest, closet, or room in which things may be placed for safekeeping
2.  Rare
a building for exhibiting objects; museum
3. 
a burial vault; sepulcher
4. 
any thing or person thought of as a center of accumulation or storage
a repository of information
5. 
a person to whom something is entrusted or confided; confidant
adjective
6. 
acting gradually over a period of time
said of a drug

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Repository

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n. pl. re·pos·i·to·ries
1. A place where things may be put for safekeeping.
2. A warehouse.
3. A museum.
4. A burial vault; a tomb.
5. One that contains or is a store of something specified: "Bone marrow is also the repository for some leukemias and lymphomas" (Seth Rolbein).
6. One who is entrusted with secrets or confidential information.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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