re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē 
plural repositories
1
: a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository
2
: a side altar in a Roman Catholic church where the consecrated Host is reserved from Maundy Thursday until Good Friday
3
: one that contains or stores something nonmaterial
considered the book a repository of knowledge
4
: a place or region richly supplied with a natural resource
5
: a person to whom something is confided or entrusted
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
Examples of repository in a Sentence
Noun
a repository for nuclear waste
He is the repository of many secrets.
She is the repository of her family's history.
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Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
The team's research was published across three papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is also available on the paper repository site arXiv.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Mar. 2026
The infections spanned JavaScript, TypeScript and Python repositories.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2026
There’s also the Asiama gallery, a comprehensive repository of Lao history through its tribal textiles.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The vehicle information that’s captured is typically stored in the cloud, creating a massive web of data repositories.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
The team's research was published across three papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is also available on the paper repository site arXiv.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Mar. 2026
The infections spanned JavaScript, TypeScript and Python repositories.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2026
There’s also the Asiama gallery, a comprehensive repository of Lao history through its tribal textiles.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
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repository
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re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpäz-ə-ˌtōr-ē
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
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