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repository definition
re·posi·tory (ri päz′ə tôr′ē)
noun pl. repositories -·ries
- 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
Etymology: LME repositorie < L repositorium < repositus, pp. of reponere, to put back < re-, back + ponere, to place: see position
adjective
acting gradually over a period of time: said of a drug
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