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repositories in British English

plural noun
repository
 

repository in British English

(rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ, -trɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -ries
1. 
a place or container in which things can be stored for safety
2. 
a place where things are kept for exhibition; museum
3. 
a place where commodities are kept before being sold; warehouse
4. 
a place of burial; sepulchre
5. 
a receptacle containing the relics of the dead
6. 
a person to whom a secret is entrusted; confidant
Word origin
C15: from Latin repositōrium, from repōnere to place

Examples of 'repositories' in a sentence
repositories

My lungs feel awful, bloated repositories of carcinogenic gunk, and for what?
Alex George LOVE YOU MADLY (2002)
Don't all doctors carry deep repositories of current medical wisdom in their cranial databases?
Globe and Mail (2003)
They are sturdy repositories of literary and verbal history.
The Times Literary Supplement (2018)
Empty any areas that have become repositories of clutter and reorganise the space.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
That leaves deep repositories in impermeable, geologically stable rock.
canada.com (2011)
Repositories are required to be secure from leakage for 10,000 years.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Their houses were flattened, their document repositories emptied to fuel bonfires.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Museums are not musty repositories of outmoded relics.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
These houses are without a doubt the most evocative repositories of our history.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They should, he urged, be gathered in public repositories like the one over which he presided.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
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