Repository

Word REPOSITORY
Character 10
Hyphenation re pos i to ry
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Repository"

What do we mean by repository?

A place where things may be put for safekeeping. noun

A warehouse. noun

A museum. noun

A burial vault; a tomb. noun

One that contains or is a store of something specified. noun

One who is entrusted with secrets or confidential information. noun

Pertaining to reposition; adapted or intended for deposition or storage.

A place where things are or may be deposited for safety or preservation; a depository; a storehouse; a magazine. noun

A place where things are kept for sale; a shop: as, a carriage-repository. noun

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. noun

A location for storage, often for safety or preservation noun

A burial vault noun

A person to whom a secret is entrusted noun

A person to whom a secret is entrusted noun

A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping noun

A burial vault (usually for some famous person) noun

A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Repository

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The word "repository" in example sentences

The main American repository of papers from that period is 41's library in College Station, Texas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An accurate, well-vetted historical repository is a scary prospect, just because of the finances. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

Can we have a Melvin repository where we can view his various comments? on October 11, 2009 at 6: 18 pm Tony F ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

The nuclear industry has hoped the federal government would build a long-term repository inside Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where nuclear waste from around the country could be held for hundreds of thousands of years. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Fuel, once used, will continue to be safely stored at reactor sites -- as has been the case for decades -- until a long-term repository is identified. ❋ Christine Todd Whitman (2010)

In addition to being over budget, the repository is 19 years behind schedule. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The owning repository is listed in the "Repository" field of the metadata for each photograph. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The main repository of info for me on the web will still be www. ceciliatan.com but here I am. ❋ Ceciliatan (2006)

The FrostWire beta mainly focuses on making sure the Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X installers are working as they should, and that the code synchronization with the main LimeWire repository is also up to snuff. ❋ Unknown (2005)

That issue is the closure of Yucca Mountain which had been designated by Congress as the long-term repository for high level nuclear waste. ❋ Associated Press (2010)

The word repository has appeared in 130 Times articles over the past year, including recently in the January 21, 2010 Book Review essay ❋ Unknown (2010)

The inability of the United States to build a long-term repository for its spent nuclear fuel has left temporary storage pools at many nuclear plants around the country full of this extremely hazardous waste. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To overcome this issue congress should determine 5 or so states where a long term repository could be placed and auction off the right to put the facility in that state, i.e., pay them to take it.

Transfer to and from the ocean is slow - that's time available for increasing the rate of removal from the atmosphere into other sinks (whether algae or plankton or bales of plastic or biochar sunk into some longterm repository, or fracturing or opening up some of the mineral material that can take CO2 out of the air). ❋ Unknown (2009)

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