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depositary

/dɪˈpɒzɪtɹi/US/dɪˈpɑzɪtɛɹi/

depositary adjective: acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.

Adjective

depositary (not comparable)

  1. Acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
    • The hospital was the depositary institution of our monies.

Noun

depositary (plural depositaries)

  1. One who receives goods or a deposit in trust.
    • She was also depositary of the golden chain, the produce of whose sale was to be devoted to the nurse's support.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 149
    • The United States is the depositary, or safekeeper, of NATO under the alliance’s 1949 founding treaty.2023 April 3, Associated Press, “What are the last steps for Finland’s NATO membership?”, in PBS NewsHour, PBS, retrieved 03 Apr 2023
    Synonyms:
    trustee
  2. A place where deposits are kept
    Synonyms:
    depository

depositary meaning in Tamil

depositary in Tamil

வைப்பகம்

Synonyms of depositary

Forms of depositary

pluraldepositaries

Origin of depositary

Borrowed from Late Latin dēpositārius.

Words formed from depositary

Phrases with depositary

Questions about depositary

What does depositary mean?
Depositary means acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
What is depositary in Tamil?
Depositary in Tamil is வைப்பகம். See Depositary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is depositary?
Depositary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce depositary?
Depositary is pronounced /dɪˈpɒzɪtɹi/ (UK).

Words near depositary in the dictionary

  1. deposit receipts
  2. deposit slip
  3. deposit slips
  4. depositable
  5. depositaries
  6. depositary
  7. depositary receipt
  8. depositary receipts
  9. depositation
  10. depositations
  11. deposite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depositary (page history and authors); depositary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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