Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A place where things may be put for safekeeping.
- n. A warehouse.
- n. A museum.
- n. A burial vault; a tomb.
- n. One that contains or is a store of something specified: "Bone marrow is also the repository for some leukemias and lymphomas” ( Seth Rolbein).
- n. One who is entrusted with secrets or confidential information.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to reposition; adapted or intended for deposition or storage.
- n. A place where things are or may be deposited for safety or preservation; a depository; a storehouse; a magazine.
- n. A place where things are kept for sale; a shop: as, a carriage-repository.
Wiktionary
- n. a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
- n. a burial vault
- n. a person to whom a secret is entrusted
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- n. a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- n. a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Etymologies
- From Late Latin repositorium. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“An accurate, well-vetted historical repository is a scary prospect, just because of the finances.”
“The nuclear industry has hoped the federal government would build a long-term repository inside Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where nuclear waste from around the country could be held for hundreds of thousands of years.”
USA Today: Shift to dry storage sought for U.S. nuclear fuel
“The main American repository of papers from that period is 41's library in College Station, Texas.”
“Can we have a Melvin repository where we can view his various comments? on October 11, 2009 at 6: 18 pm Tony F”
“Fuel, once used, will continue to be safely stored at reactor sites -- as has been the case for decades -- until a long-term repository is identified.”
The Huffington Post: Christine Todd Whitman: The Case for Nuclear Power Is as Strong as Ever
“In addition to being over budget, the repository is 19 years behind schedule.”
Earth Policy Institute: The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power
“The owning repository is listed in the "Repository" field of the metadata for each photograph.”
“The main repository of info for me on the web will still be www. ceciliatan.com but here I am.”
“The FrostWire beta mainly focuses on making sure the Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X installers are working as they should, and that the code synchronization with the main LimeWire repository is also up to snuff.”
“That issue is the closure of Yucca Mountain which had been designated by Congress as the long-term repository for high level nuclear waste.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘repository’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words from Blood Meridian
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Storage Facilities
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
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Buzzwords of our time
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object-oriented p..., ALGOL, validation, Erlang, markup language, Python, hibernate, framework, Apache, template, mapper, Java and 310 more...
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
jaydrox's list
Mah list!
mediocracy, captivatingly, devastatingly, dazedly, heavenly, flawless, copious, conviction, synoptic, amalgamation, prefatory, precursory and 150 more...
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1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Super Geeky Word List
as a techie, I run across nerd words.
brane, polyamide, phb, PHB, BOFH, redditor, grammar nazi, phaser, trending, SPOILER ALERT, surface mount, FMEA and 70 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for repository.
alexz In Linux, it's a software source, similar to an app market, where you can download software packages from.
May 16, 2013