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repository
Found in thesaurus: installation, facility, intimate, confidant, sepulchre, sepulture, sepulcher, burial chamber
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repository
n.
storeroom, warehouse; plentiful source, wellspring; archive, museum, location where valuable documents or artwork is stored; sepulcher, tomb
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Repository
Repository commonly refers to a storage location, often for safety or preservation.
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repository
Noun
1. a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
(synonym) depository, deposit
(hypernym) facility, installation
(hyponym) archive, archives
(part-meronym) storage space
2. a person to whom a secret is entrusted
(synonym) secretary
(hypernym) confidant, intimate
3. a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
(synonym) monument
(hypernym) burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
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Repository
(n.)
A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
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Repository
A facility such as a museum, archeological center, laboratory or storage facility that is managed by a university, college, museum, or other educational or scientific institution, a federal, state, or local government agency, or Indian tribe that can provide professional, systematic, and accountable curatorial services on a long-term basis." (36 CFR 79, Section 79.4(j)).
