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depository
[ dih-poz-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]
noun
- a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping:
the night depository of a bank.
- a depositary; trustee.
adjective
- of or relating to a depository or depositories:
the depository role of a bank.
depository
/ -trɪ; dɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ /
noun
- a store, such as a warehouse, for furniture, valuables, etc; repository
- See depositarya variant spelling of depositary
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Other Words From
- nonde·posi·tory adjective
- prede·posi·tory noun plural predepositories
- subde·posi·tory noun plural subdepositories
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Word History and Origins
Origin of depository1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of depository1
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Example Sentences
At least at the outset, some banks could serve as depository institutions for state and local governments, meaning those governments would put their money in the local public bank, not JPMorgan.
Online depositories such as GitHub, Bitbucket, and others already allow the sharing of code.
This was a building with the enduring ethos of a book depository in a city of book lovers.
Specifically, the Banking Integrity Act would separate commercial (depository) and investment banking companies.
At one stroke it opened the entire front of the Sunday-School Depository to the light of heaven.
But you told this to Marina because of the association of Lee Oswald with the schoolbook depository?
As my husband has told you, he had his back to the School Depository Building.
Still,” ventured Raikes, astonished at this curious rejoinder, “you have some safe depository for such valuables.
The aid of both hands was called in to assist in supporting her intellectual depository.
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