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  1. noun A place where things may be put for safekeeping.
  2. noun A warehouse.
  3. noun A museum.
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  • After that everything is just downloads from the repository, the digital equivalent of bringing your own bag to the grocery store. —  Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]
  • The procedure states to download contents of BASE folder from PCLOS repository, to use it as a repository for Synaptic, and to get Synaptic creating a text file containing the list of all needed files ... but then it does not explain how to download those files: looks like I have to download each one of them MANUALLY!! —  PCLinuxOS-Forums
  • More details including a list of supported ESX releases, guest operating systems, documentation and package repository are available from the OSP web page at —  VMware RSS Feed
  • DreamHost for hosting my Subversion repository, as it comes free with their base hosting account. —  Software by Rob
  • 'As customers they expect to get their materials quickly and a YouTube-like repository is an easy way to get to them.' —  innovations-report
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database ·  storehouse ·  cache ·  depository ·  archive ·  provider ·  directory ·  library ·  entity ·  storage ·  infrastructure ·  hierarchy

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repository:   repositories
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  1. I. a. from Latin repositorius, from reponere, past participle repositus, lay up: see reposit. II. n. from Old French *repositorie, later repositoire =Spanish Portuguese repositorio =Italian ripositorio, from Latin repositorium, a repository, neuter of repositorius: see I.
 

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