1. a place, building, or receptacle where things are or may be stored: "a deep repository for nuclear waste"
▪ a place in which something, especially a natural resource, has accumulated or where it is found in significant quantities: "accessible repositories of water"
▪ a central location in which data is stored and managed: "the metadata will be aggregated in a repository"
▪ a person or thing regarded as a store of information or in which something abstract is held to exist or be found:"his mind was a rich repository of the past"
Word Originlate 15th century: from Old French repositoire or Latin repositorium, from reposit- ‘placed back’, from the verb reponere (see repose2).
