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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Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2025
These models will be available via Alibaba Cloud’s Model Scope and Hugging Face, a huge repository of AI models.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
And scientists are partnering internationally to share data, DNA repositories and other resources, which is leading to more discoveries that could improve cancer treatment for this population.
—Leah Small, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2025
The building has become a repository of underdocumented American, Islamic and Chicago history.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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Noun
When these sorts of mistakes happen, developers often make the repositories private quickly, hoping to contain the fallout.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2025
These models will be available via Alibaba Cloud’s Model Scope and Hugging Face, a huge repository of AI models.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
And scientists are partnering internationally to share data, DNA repositories and other resources, which is leading to more discoveries that could improve cancer treatment for this population.
—Leah Small, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2025
The building has become a repository of underdocumented American, Islamic and Chicago history.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 13 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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