The definition of a repository is a place where things are stored for safe keeping, or where there is an ample supply of something, or a person or thing with a lot of information about something.
(noun)See repository in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun pl. repositories
Origin: LME repositorie < L repositorium < repositus, pp. of reponere, to put back < re-, back + ponere, to place: see position
adjective
See repository in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun pl. re·pos·i·to·ries
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