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repositories
Variant of repository
noun pl. repositories
- a box, chest, closet, or room in which things may be placed for safekeeping
- Now Rare a building for exhibiting objects; museum
- a burial vault; sepulcher
- any thing or person thought of as a center of accumulation or storage: a repository of information
- a person to whom something is entrusted or confided; confidant
adjective
acting gradually over a period of time: said of a drug
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