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
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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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Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
Norma and David had converted the median strip beyond their sidewalk into a native-plant repository—Christmas fern, aster, monarda, bergamot.
—Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
Some scientists and state officials alike were concerned about Yucca’s history of seismic activity and feared the repository could be more exposed to free oxygen – increasing the odds of radiation leaks.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
The decline of pay TV has culminated in Comcast placing MSNBC — along with sister networks such as CNBC and E! — in a spinoff company that will essentially be a repository for its cable outlets.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Rather than simply autocompleting sections of code, as current AI tools do, these agents can take on more complex work, such as checking code into repositories or combining data to enable analysis.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
Norma and David had converted the median strip beyond their sidewalk into a native-plant repository—Christmas fern, aster, monarda, bergamot.
—Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
Some scientists and state officials alike were concerned about Yucca’s history of seismic activity and feared the repository could be more exposed to free oxygen – increasing the odds of radiation leaks.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
The decline of pay TV has culminated in Comcast placing MSNBC — along with sister networks such as CNBC and E! — in a spinoff company that will essentially be a repository for its cable outlets.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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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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