Word of the Day:
repository
What It Means
A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
A storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
A burial vault.
Repository in Context
“Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation."”
Did You Know?
From Middle English reposytorye, from Latin repositōrium. By surface analysis, reposit + -ory.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: repository (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
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