repository
noun/rɪˈpɒzətri/
/rɪˈpɑːzətɔːri/
(plural repositories)
(formal)- a place where something is stored in large quantities
- a person or book that is full of information
- My father is a repository of family history.
- The foundation is the largest repository of the artist’s work.
- The site is near an underground repository for radioactive waste.
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Old French repositoire or Latin repositorium, from reposit- ‘placed back’, from the verb reponere ‘replace’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + ponere ‘to place’.
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