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depository

[ dih-poz-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

noun

plural depositories.
  1. a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping:

    the night depository of a bank.

  2. a depositary; trustee.


adjective

  1. of or relating to a depository or depositories:

    the depository role of a bank.

depository

/ -trɪ; dɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ /

noun

  1. a store, such as a warehouse, for furniture, valuables, etc; repository
  2. a variant spelling of depositary
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²Ô´Ç²Ôd±ð·±è´Ç²õi·³Ù´Çr²â adjective
  • ±è°ù±ðd±ð·±è´Ç²õi·³Ù´Çr²â noun plural predepositories
  • ²õ³Ü²úd±ð·±è´Ç²õi·³Ù´Çr²â noun plural subdepositories
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of depository1

1650–60; depository ( def 1 ) < Medieval Latin »åŧ±è´Ç²õ¾±³ÙÅ°ù¾±³Ü³¾; depository ( def 2 ) deposit + -ory 1 (noun use of adj. suffix)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of depository1

C17 (in the sense: place of a deposit): from Medieval Latin »åŧ±è´Ç²õ¾±³ÙÅ°ù¾±³Ü³¾ ; C18 (in the sense: depositary): see deposit , -ory 1
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As of now, the only federal agency that explicitly monitors banks and other depository institutions for abusing consumers is on life support.

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Officials arrested a worker in the book depository building named Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and Marxist sympathizer who at one point tried to become a citizen of the Soviet Union.

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The Kiteezi landfill was built in 1996, with financing from the World Bank, to provide a single, major depository for solid waste generated by Kampala.

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About 190 billion euros of Russian central bank assets are held by Belgium’s central securities depository, Euroclear.

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Some of the cash was wrapped in bands showing it had been withdrawn, at least $10,000 at a time, from a bank where Menendez and his wife “had no known depository account.â€

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