re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē 
plural repositories
1
: a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository
2
: a side altar in a Roman Catholic church where the consecrated Host is reserved from Maundy Thursday until Good Friday
3
: one that contains or stores something nonmaterial
considered the book a repository of knowledge
4
: a place or region richly supplied with a natural resource
5
: a person to whom something is confided or entrusted
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
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Examples of repository in a Sentence
Noun
a repository for nuclear waste
He is the repository of many secrets.
She is the repository of her family's history.
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Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
But last month, the company disclosed that Midnight Blizzard also accessed Microsoft’s source code repositories after pilfering the corporate emails.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
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Noun
For example, Nadella bought LinkedIn, a player in social media, which Microsoft had entirely missed, and later bought GitHub, a repository of open-source code, which Microsoft had previously despised.
—Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
But last month, the company disclosed that Midnight Blizzard also accessed Microsoft’s source code repositories after pilfering the corporate emails.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
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re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpäz-ə-ˌtōr-ē
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
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