repository

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UK /ɹɪˈpɒz.ɪ.t(ə.)ɹɪ/ US /ɹɪˈpɑ.zɪˌtɔɹ.i/

noun 5

Collocations

ADJ.

genetic, open, rich

The museum's archive serves as a rich repository of historical documents from the Victorian era.

VERB + REPOSITORY

become, maintains, provide, trusted

The library maintains a vast repository of historical documents and rare books.

REPOSITORY + NOUN

examples, genome, george, knowledge, segal's, software, website

The university built a digital repository of knowledge to preserve historical documents for future researchers.

Definitions

noun

A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

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

A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.

Over the years, openSNP became one of the largest repositories of its kind, used in research, education, and even community-led investigations like debunking flawed CFS genetic studies.

A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safe

noun — a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

monument

noun — a person to whom a secret is entrusted

secretary

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.

Wiktionary

Over the years, openSNP became one of the largest repositories of its kind, used in research, education, and even community-led investigations like debunking flawed CFS genetic studies.

Wiktionary

An encyclopedia is a repository of knowledge and wisdom.

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A website for learning different languages, tatoeba.org has a rich repository of sentence examples.

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The superior stability of DNA when compared to RNA most likely accounts for the former's role as the long-term repository of the genome.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, repository is marked as figuratively, dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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