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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Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Windows in the the Hinaus gallery and the Zhytnii Market building were reportedly shattered, and the premises of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature sustained damage to its library and book repositories.
—News Desk, Artforum, 26 May 2026
Collaboration has also improved through Live Share, which allows developers to work together in real time without requiring teammates to fully clone repositories or mirror local environments.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 24 May 2026
For the past 50 years, and in anticipation of their demise, scientists have been banking tissue samples of the species in repositories like San Diego’s Frozen Zoo.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
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Noun
Six months in, a company whose chief executive has said AI writes roughly 20% to 30% of the code in some of its repositories is reportedly standardising developers on GitHub Copilot CLI.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Windows in the the Hinaus gallery and the Zhytnii Market building were reportedly shattered, and the premises of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature sustained damage to its library and book repositories.
—News Desk, Artforum, 26 May 2026
Collaboration has also improved through Live Share, which allows developers to work together in real time without requiring teammates to fully clone repositories or mirror local environments.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 24 May 2026
For the past 50 years, and in anticipation of their demise, scientists have been banking tissue samples of the species in repositories like San Diego’s Frozen Zoo.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 29 May. 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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