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Another word for depository

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Noun

  1. A place where something is deposited for safekeeping

      1. A file containing one or more files in compressed format for more efficient storage and transfer.
      2. The records, material, etc. kept in either of such places
      3. (Computers) A long-term storage area, often on magnetic tape, for backup copies of files or for files that are no longer in active use.
      1. A newspaper section similar to this
      2. A television program that presents a variety of topics, usually on current events, in a format that often includes interviews and commentary.
      3. An online version of a printed magazine
      1. A box, chest, closet, or room in which things may be placed for safekeeping
      2. Any thing or person thought of as a center of accumulation or storage
      3. One that contains or is a store of something specified:
      1. Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
      2. A retail establishment where goods are regularly offered for sale
      3. A stock or supply reserved for future use:
      1. An abundant source or supply:
      2. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
      3. (By extension) A single non-geographical place where a large quantity of something can be found.
      1. A place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
      2. A building where wares, or goods, are stored, as before distribution to retailers, or are kept in reserve, in bond, etc.
      3. (Chiefly Brit.) A wholesale store or, esp. formerly, a large retail store
    See also:

    keep

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Another word for depository

Noun
      1. Any thing or person thought of as a center of accumulation or storage
      2. A museum.
      3. (Now Rare) A building for exhibiting objects; museum
      1. A fireproof metal box, usually in a bank vault, for the safe storage of valuables.
      1. A piece of gymnastic equipment with an upholstered body used especially for vaulting.
      2. A secure room, often with individual safe-deposit boxes, for the safekeeping of valuables or money, as in a bank
      3. A room or compartment, often built of steel, for the safekeeping of valuables:
      1. A metal container usually having a lock, used for storing valuables.
      2. A container or box, capable of being locked and usually of metal, in which to store valuables
      3. A repository for protecting stored items, especially a cooled compartment for perishable foods:
      1. A building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.
      2. An institution, building, or room for preserving and exhibiting artistic, historical, or scientific objects
      1. An abundant source or supply:
      2. (By extension) A single non-geographical place where a large quantity of something can be found.
      3. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
      1. A place where treasure is kept; room or building where valuable objects are preserved
      2. A collection of treasures in art, literature, etc.
      3. The department of a government in charge of the collection, management, and expenditure of the public revenue.
      1. Something stored in or as if in such a place; a stock or collection.
      2. A theater in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation.
      3. The things stored; stock; collection
      1. A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer.
      2. An amount of goods or valuables, especially when kept in a concealed or hard-to-reach place:
      3. (Comput.) A storage area or portion of memory variously designed to store program instructions, copies of recently or frequently accessed Web pages, etc. for faster retrieval
      1. A storage installation for military equipment and supplies.
      2. A railroad or bus station: originally used of a freight station
      3. A mass of a drug or other substance that has been injected into the body and is gradually absorbed into the surrounding tissue over time.
      1. (Chiefly Brit.) A wholesale store or, esp. formerly, a large retail store
      2. A place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
      3. A building where wares, or goods, are stored, as before distribution to retailers, or are kept in reserve, in bond, etc.
      1. A publication, usually with a paper cover and sometimes illustrated, that appears at regular intervals and contains stories, articles, etc. by various writers and, usually, advertisements
      2. A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.
      3. A space in which ammunition and explosives are stored, as a building or room in a fort, or a section of a warship
      1. An underground fortification, often with a concrete projection above ground level for observation or gun emplacements.
      2. Fuel, such as coal or fuel oil, used especially in ships.
      3. A bin or tank especially for fuel storage, as on a ship.
      1. A burial monument or cenotaph
      2. A monument commemorating the dead.
      3. A vault, chamber, or grave for the dead
      1. A room, group of rooms, or other space where works of art are placed on display, possibly for sale
      1. A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
      2. A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer:
      3. An accumulation; a deposit:
      1. Any of various aromatic plants of the mint family, esp. any of a genus (Mentha) whose leaves are used for flavoring and in medicine
      2. A government bureau in charge of this
      3. A place where the coins of a country are manufactured by authority of the government.
      1. The slope of land adjoining a body of water, especially adjoining a river, lake, or channel.
      2. A place of safekeeping or storage:
      3. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
      1. A type of financial institution that focuses on retail banking: savings of private depositors, payments, credits and insurances for individuals or small and medium-sized enterprises.
      2. A bank in which savings may be deposited; esp., a banking establishment whose business is to receive and invest depositors' savings, on which it pays interest
      3. A bank that receives and invests the savings of private depositors and pays interest on the deposits.
    See also:

    bank

    safe

    treasury

    vault

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Sentence Examples

  • This same sanctity makes it serve as a depository for goods of all sorts in times of danger, the chief church forming a sort of bank.

  • which finally vindicated the reality of spiritual things and the supremacy of Yahweh's purpose, in the political ruin of the' nation which was the faithless depository of these sacred truths.

  • But the emperor died before the project could be consummated, and for twenty-five years Ares memory remained the sole depository of the collected annals.

  • The palace (1681-1750) has been used as a depository of archives since 1872.

  • During the Civil War the city was a centre for Confederate commissary supplies and the seat of a Treasury depository.

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