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From Latin repositōrium.

repository (plural repositories)

  1. A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
    Synonym: depository
    • 1982 February 13, “Statuary Limitations”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 2:
      Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation."
    1. (archiving, computing) A storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.
      Synonym: archive
      Hyponyms: content repository, e-repository, data warehouse
      • 2025 April 1, Thomas Claburn, “Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it”, in The Register[1]:
        OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.
      • 2025 April 2, Bill Toulas, “Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns”, in BleepingComputer[2]:
        Over the years, openSNP became one of the largest repositories of its kind, used in research, education, and even community-led investigations like debunking flawed CFS genetic studies.
    2. A burial vault.
      Hyponym: deep geological repository
    3. (figurative) A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
    4. (dated) A place where things are stored for sale; a shop.

a location for storage, often for safety or preservation

storage location for computer files

a burial vault

a person to whom a secret is entrusted

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