repository

re·pos·i·to·ry  (r-pz-tôr, -tr)

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.

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repository [rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ -trɪ]

n pl -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. (Business / Commerce) 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

[from Latin repositōrium, from repōnere to place]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	repository - a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping depositary, depository, deposit archive - a depository containing historical records and documents bank building, bank - a building in which the business of banking transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon" drop - a central depository where things can be left or picked up facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" depository library, library - a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study lost-and-found - repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them museum - a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value repertory - a storehouse where a stock of things is kept sperm bank - a depository for storing sperm storage space - the area in any structure that provides space for storage storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store - a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" treasury - a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
	2.	repository - a person to whom a secret is entrusted secretary confidant, intimate - someone to whom private matters are confided
	3.	repository - a burial vault (usually for some famous person) monument burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture - a chamber that is used as a grave

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repository

noun

1. store, archive, storehouse, depository, magazine, treasury, warehouse, vault, depot, emporium, receptacle The church became a repository for police files.

2. storehouse, fund, mine, oracle He was the repository of all important information.

Translations

repository [rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ] N → depósito m
furniture repository → guardamuebles m inv

repository [rɪˈpɒzɪtəri] n

(= store) → dépôt m

(= source) [information, knowledge] → dépositaire mf

repository

n (= warehouse) → Lager nt, → Magazin nt; (fig, of facts etc) → Quelle f → (of für); (= book, library) → Fundgrube f → (of für); (liter, of secret) → Hüter(in) m(f)

repository [rɪˈpɒzɪt/ərɪ] n (of facts, information) → miniera; (warehouse) → deposito