noun
repository
a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
In a sentence
Six example sentences with repository, each labelled with its topic.
Every version of the game engine lands in a shared repository that the team can roll back overnight.
Technology
The monastery served as a repository for charters and land deeds that survived three centuries of fire and flood.
History
Norway's seed vault is a repository buried in permafrost, holding duplicates of crop varieties from nearly every nation.
Environment
Every genome the lab sequences goes into a public repository, so a researcher anywhere can download it the same day.
Science
The museum's repository under the hill holds ten thousand works that never reach the galleries, each in its own crate.
Art
Courthouse clerks maintain a repository of every deed filed since the county formed, and anyone may request a copy.
Law
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