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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Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
The intent is to substantially alter the code and thus dodge Anthropic’s copyright takedowns, which have been removing the GitHub repositories over infringement.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
The team's research has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters and is available as a preprint on the paper repository server arXiv.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
To address the challenge, officials have begun looking for a permanent repository that can safely isolate radioactive material deep underground, typically at depths of at least 980 feet (300 meters) for long-term containment.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The Asadollahis headed toward Ward 209, a repository for political prisoners that’s run by Iran’s intelligence ministry.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
The intent is to substantially alter the code and thus dodge Anthropic’s copyright takedowns, which have been removing the GitHub repositories over infringement.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
The team's research has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters and is available as a preprint on the paper repository server arXiv.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
To address the challenge, officials have begun looking for a permanent repository that can safely isolate radioactive material deep underground, typically at depths of at least 980 feet (300 meters) for long-term containment.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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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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