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Definition: Depository |
DepositoryNoun1. A facility where things can be deposited for safekeeping. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "depository" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | A place where something of value is left for safekeeping. See depositary. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DepositorySynonyms: deposit (n), repository (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Store | Storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank; (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie. |
Treasury | Noun: treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper; cash register, kutcherry, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest;(receptacle); safe; bank vault; depository; till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Depository |
| English words defined with "depository": archive, archives, Ashery ♦ credit union ♦ Depositary, Depositories, depository library, depot, drop ♦ entrepot ♦ library ♦ museum ♦ sperm bank, storage, store, storehouse ♦ thrift institution, treasury. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "depository": ADDD, automated clearing house ♦ Bank Protection Act of 1968 ♦ Casket Homer, Census 2000 library, certificate of depository receipt, certificate representing a security, Credit Standards Advisory Committee, custodial gift ♦ Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee, DIDC, discount window ♦ Fedwire ♦ general teller ♦ National Agricultural Library, net worth certificate, night safe ♦ savings liability, SUPERVISOR, STATEMENT CLERKS ♦ teller's check. (references) |
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Screenplays | To the book depository! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Westfield Federal Savings, Broad and Prospect, Westfield, New Jersey. Night depository. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Book Depository Building 1" by Sydney Fulbright Commentary: "Book Depository." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. (reference) |
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Business | ANSI is the official U.S. depository for all ISO member-countries and has English translations of foreign standards. (references) | |
The third nuclear waste depository is located in the vicinity of the operating Czech nuclear energy power plant Dukovany. (references) | ||
Another source of information is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in New York. ANSI is the official U.S. depository for all ISO member-countries and has English translations of foreign standards. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has set up a depository system. (references) |
Moldova | There is a central depository charged with managing the securities market. (references) | |
Botswana | The BSE is also in the preliminary stages of establishing a Central Securities Depository. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | He went through electronic magnetic doors, past video cameras and motion sensors to the trash depository, and then boarded a waiting laundry truck to exit the prison. (references) |
Trade | Greece | It also acts as the depository for government accounts, and for the mandatory reserve requirements of commercial banks and legal entities. (references) |
India | In January 2000, general permission was granted to Indian companies to issue American Depository Receipts and Global Depository Receipts without any value limits. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Last year the Administration and financial regulatory agencies proposed legislation to permit the interstate acquisition of failing depository institutions. |
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| "Depository" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.87% of the time. "Depository" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.87% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.13% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Taiwan | Taiwan Securities Central Depository Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "depository": certificate of depository receipt ♦ certificate of depository share receipt ♦ depository financial institution ♦ depository library ♦ depository share receipt ♦ Standard & Poors Depository Receipts. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "depository"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bêreplek (box-room, storage, storage room). (various references) | |
Albanian | depo (buttery, closet, deposit, depot, magazine, repertory, repository, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strongroom, war house, warehouse, yard), visar, thesar (exchequer, jewel, richness, thesaurus, treasure, treasure house), ahur (byre, cot, cowhouse, cowshed, stable, stall, sty). (various references) | |
Arabic | مستودع (depot, magazine, repository, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), مخزن (depot, magazine, stockroom, store, storehouse, storeroom, stowage, warehouse). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | склад (depositary, depot, lazaretto, outlet, paddock, repository, stock-pot, stockroom, storage, store, store-house, stowage), хранилище (depositary, garner, repository, safe deposit, stockroom, storage, store). (various references) | |
Catalan | dispòsit. (various references) | |
Chinese | 藏 (accumulate, Buddhist or Taoist scripture, store, storehouse, Tibet, to conceal, to harbor, to hide away, Zang), 存放处 (Depositories). (various references) | |
Czech | úschovna. (various references) | |
Danish | depot (deposit, depositary, depot, drop crater, droplet impaction, dump, heap, point deposit, repository, spray coating, spray deposit, storage library, tip, train depot, yard), skur (barrack, shed), lager (box-room, storage room, warehouse). (various references) | |
Dutch | depot (affiliate, affiliation, branch), effectenbewaarinstelling, bewaarplaats (box-room, storage room), bergplaats (box-room, storage room). (various references) | |
Esperanto | deponejo, tenejo. (various references) | |
Farsi | مخزن (Bomb, Cache, Fountain, Magazine, Repertory, Repository, Reservoir, Stank, Storage, Store, Storehouse, Sump, Tank, Thesaurus, Warehouse), امانت دار (Trustee), انبار (Arsenal, Cellar, Depot, Entrepot, Garner, Godown, Lodge, Repertory, Repository, Sluice, Store, Tender, Thesaurus). (various references) | |
Finnish | säilytyskeskus. (various references) | |
French | agent dépositaire. (various references) | |
German | depot (deposit, depot, dump, magazine, securities deposit account, strong room, warehouse), Wertpapierverwahrstelle, lagerhaus (depot, store, storehouse, warehouse, warestore). (various references) | |
Greek | χώροσ φύλαξησ, αποθήκη (bin, cellar, hutch, promptuary, repository, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, vault, warehouse), θεματοφύλακας (trustee), θεματοφυλάκιο. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ahur (byre, cowhouse, cowshed, stable, stall, sty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | raktár (berth, depot, dump, go down, godown, hold, magazine, repository, stock, stock room, stockpile, storage, store, store room, storehouse, warehouse, yard), megőrzőhely. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tempat menyimpan. (various references) | |
Italian | deposito (account, attic, bestowal, check in, deposit, depot, leaving, loft, memory, pawn, pledge, repository, storage, store, storeroom, unloading point, warehouse), depositario (bailee, depositary, reservoir). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蔵 (cellar, elevator, godown, granary, magazine, treasury, warehouse), 倉 (cellar, elevator, godown, granary, magazine, treasury, warehouse). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), くら (cellar, elevator, godown, granary, magazine, saddle, treasury, warehouse). (various references) | |
Korean | 보관소 (Depositories). (various references) | |
Norwegian | låve (barn). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epositoryday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | depositário (bailee, depositary, fiduciary, receiver, trustee), depósito (bailment, deposit, deposition, depot, dreg, font, garner, lodging, outhouse, reservoir, sediment, storehouse, tank). (various references) | |
Romanian | depozitar (depositary, Guardian, keeper, repository). (various references) | |
Russian | склад (depot, repertory, repository, reservoir, stock room, stockroom, storage, store, storehouse). (various references) | |
Scottish | tasgaidh (thing laid by, treasure). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | spremište (bunker, depositary, warehouse). (various references) | |
Spanish | depositario (bailee, depositary, repository, trustee), depósito (barrel, bond, cistern, deposit, depot, escrow, morgue, Pinfold, repository, reservoir, retainer, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, tank, warehouse). (various references) | |
Swedish | depositarie (bailee, depositary), depåhållare, magasin (garner, mag, magazine, mags, store, storehouse, warehouse), lada (barn), förvaringsställe (box-room, storage room), förvaringsrum, förvarare (depositary). (various references) | |
Turkish | depo (depot, entrepot, goods yard, packing house, receptacle, repertory, repository, reservoir, stock room, storage, store, storeroom, tank, warehouse, yard), emanetçi (bailee, consignee, depositary, depot, trustee), ambar (barn, bin, clamp, hold, hutch, larder, office, repository, silo, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сховище (accommodation, citadel, cover, covert, coverture, depot, garner, haven, hide out, hold, housing, repertory, vault, warehouse), скарбниця (reservoir, storehouse, thesaurus, treasure house, treasury), склад (cast, cellar, composition, compound, depot, make up, repertory, storage, store, syllable, yard). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nơi cất giữ đồ gửi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Depository" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depositare, D'esposito, dispositer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "depository" (pronounced dupÄ"zutô'rē) |
| 8 | -p Ä" z u t ô' r ē | repository. |
| 6 | -z u t ô' r ē | accusatory, transitory. |
| 5 | -u t ô' r ē | aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, defamatory, depilatory, derogatory, dilatory, discriminatory, laboratory, laudatory, lavatory, dormitory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, mandatory, migratory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, preparatory, prohibitory, purgatory, reformatory, regulatory, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory. |
| 4 | -t ô' r ē | desultory, multistory, repertory, understory. |
| 3 | -ô' r ē | allegory, category, outlawry, promissory. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: depositor, droopiest. | |
-2 letters: diopters, dioptres, doorstep, isotropy, peridots, porosity, proteids, riposted, topsider, torpedos. | |
-3 letters: deports, deposit, destroy, diopter, dioptre, disport, disroot, dopiest, editors, isotope, isotopy, isotype, oroides, osteoid, peridot, periods, podites, poorest, posited, prosody, prostie, proteid, pyrites, redtops, reposit, riposte, roosted, ropiest, sootier, sopited, sortied, spidery, spirted, spoored, sporoid, sported, steroid, stooped, stooper. | |
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