[ UK /ɹɪpˈɒsɪtəɹˌi/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈpɑzəˌtɔɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
  2. a person to whom a secret is entrusted
  3. a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
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How To Use repository In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • It is the repository of ‘reasons’ of which Owen speaks in the above quoted passage.
  • For example, it's a universally available process repository where one business user can create a draft process and a colleague in another location can modify that process.
  • Not only is it a science fiction author's ultimate idea repository and writer's-block alleviator, but the folks at DARPA obviously have a sense of humor about their overtly Matrix-like, world-dominating aspirations. Brave New World Order: A Googlement Above, Around, and Ahead of the People
  • The electorate's hope that his Cabinet would prove a genuine repository of positive change was the one slim reed on which the Party's recent political legitimacy had rested.
  • Cooperative application development with shared data should be possible via the open repository strategy that Informix has outlined - see above.
  • The army—intensely conservative though its military ideas might be—also regarded itself as the repository of the pride of the Prussian people, and the insults heaped upon the head of their monarch did not go unnoticed or unresented. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
  • It serves as a central repository to cross-check information and look for fraud.
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