What does "repository" mean?

A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

What is a synonym for "repository"?

Common synonyms include: depository, depository, acquaintance, advocate, alter ego, archive.

Pronounced //ɹɪˈpɑ.zɪˌtɔɹ.i//.

//ɹɪˈpɑ.zɪˌtɔɹ.i// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

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A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
"Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation.""
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a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping wordnet
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A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.; A storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
"OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April."
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a burial vault (usually for some famous person) wordnet
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A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.; A burial vault.

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a person to whom a secret is entrusted wordnet
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A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.; A person to whom a secret is entrusted. figuratively
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A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.; A place where things are stored for sale; a shop. dated