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

Noun

pl -ries

1. a place or container in which things can be stored for safety: a repository for national treasures

2. a person to whom a secret is entrusted [Latin repositorium]

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 store, archive, storehouse, depository, magazine, treasury, warehouse, vault, depot, emporium, receptacle

Translations

repository [rɪˈpɔzɪtərɪ] n (person) (of knowledge) → Quelle f;

(place) (of collection etc) → Lager nt