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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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Roughly 89,000 metric tons of waste has accumulated at nuclear power plants in 35 states around the country because the federal government has not built a repository where waste from commercial reactors can go.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
The Holocaust museums in Washington and elsewhere are repositories and archives of recorded testimony and other evidence of the truth.
—Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
Individual researchers are also uploading datasets in searchable repositories like OSF, run by the Center for Open Science.
—Alejandro Paz, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The data was uploaded by the USDA’s National Veterinary Laboratory Services to a public access genetic repository known as GISAID.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Roughly 89,000 metric tons of waste has accumulated at nuclear power plants in 35 states around the country because the federal government has not built a repository where waste from commercial reactors can go.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
The Holocaust museums in Washington and elsewhere are repositories and archives of recorded testimony and other evidence of the truth.
—Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
Individual researchers are also uploading datasets in searchable repositories like OSF, run by the Center for Open Science.
—Alejandro Paz, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for repository
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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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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