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Repository

//ɹɪˈpɑ.zɪˌtɔɹ.i// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

    "Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation.""

  2. 2
    a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    a burial vault (usually for some famous person) wordnet
  5. 5
    A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.; A burial vault.
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  1. 6
    a person to whom a secret is entrusted wordnet
  2. 7
    A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.; A person to whom a secret is entrusted. figuratively
  3. 8
    A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.; A place where things are stored for sale; a shop. dated

Etymology

From Latin repositōrium.

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