Meaning & use

repository

noun·Academic

A place where things are stored, collected, or kept safe, especially information, documents, or valuable items.

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The university library serves as a repository for rare historical manuscripts.

Developers uploaded the new code to the team's shared repository.

A note on using this word

In computing, repository specifically refers to a central location where code or data is stored and version-controlled, as in a Git repository.

Words with a similar meaning

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