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Noun: repository  ri'pó-zi,to-ree [N. Amer], ri'pó-zi-t(u-)ree [Brit]
  1. A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
    - depository, deposit, depositary
     
  2. A person to whom a secret is entrusted
    - secretary
     
  3. A burial vault (usually for some famous person)
    - monument

Derived forms: repositories

Type of: burial chamber, confidant, facility, installation, intimate, sepulcher [US], sepulchre [Brit, Cdn], sepulture [archaic]

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