repository vs depository
Definitions
noun
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Examples
This institute shall act as a repository for all modern extrication and medical relief techniques to ensure quicker rescue and provide prompt medical relief, comparable to international standards.
Where items need to be transported to and from the repository they should be in appropriate containers designed to limit exposure to environmental factors and handling damage (eg. folders, archive boxes, plan and art folios, phase and solander boxes).
The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable.
Definitions
noun
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
Examples
The difference between depository institutions and other firms is deposit insurance that underwrites risk taking. 3.
These include products such as the software and standards which underpin Interac; the networking and processing systems which underpin the Canadian Depository for Securities; the courseware and educational programming produced by the Institute of Canadian Bankers; and maybe even some of the structures and systems of the Canadian regulatory community.
When an individual uses a new word, if illformed it is rejected in society, if wellformed, adopted, and, after due time, laid up in the depository of dictionaries.
