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Definitions: DEPOSITARY |
DEPOSITARYNoun1. One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. 2. A storehouse; a depository. 3. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. |
Date "DEPOSITARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Depositary \De*pos"i*ta*ry\, noun; plural Depositaries. [Latin expression depositarius, from deponere. See Deposit.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | Banks or brokers where the valuables of a custody account are stored for safekeeping. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A person identified as someone to be entrusted with something of value for safekeeping. See depository. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Treasurer | Noun: treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist; money changer; (merchant). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DEPOSITARY |
| English words defined with "DEPOSITARY": Depositaries. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DEPOSITARY": American depositary receipt. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Romania | Sales of shares take one of the following forms: public offering on the Bucharest Stock Exchange or RASDAQ, negotiation, auction, depositary receipts issued by investment banks on the international capital markets (GDR, ADR, EDR) or a combination of these methods. (references) |
Political Economy | THAILAND | The AER does not exempt American investors from applicable restrictions in the fields of communications, transport, fiduciary functions, banking involving depositary functions, exploitation of land or other natural resources, and domestic trade in agricultural products. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DEPOSITARY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "DEPOSITARY" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DEPOSITARY": American depositary receipt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DEPOSITARY": depositary-custodian. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
american depositary receipt | 28 |
bearer copy depositary doc memorandum offshore placement private receipt sample | 4 |
american depositary share | 4 |
depositary | 4 |
company depositary trust | 3 |
depositary receipt | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEPOSITARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المودع لديه (bailee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съхранител, склад (depository, depot, lazaretto, outlet, paddock, repository, stock-pot, stockroom, storage, store, store-house, stowage), хранилище (depository, garner, repository, safe deposit, stockroom, storage, store), пазител (custodian, keeper, protection, protector, watchdog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | depot (deposit, depository, depot, drop crater, droplet impaction, dump, heap, point deposit, repository, spray coating, spray deposit, storage library, tip, train depot, yard), depositar (consignee), opbevarer (consignee), konsignatar (consignee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | consignatiehouder (consignee), bewaarnemer van goederen in consignatie (consignee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | destinataire de marchandises, dépositaire, réceptionnaire, office de dépôt, consignataire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Depotstelle, Verwahrer (bailee, consignee, custodian), treuhänder (fiduciaries, fiduciary, trustee), Empfänger (accepting SS-user, acceptor, actual recipient, addressee, beneficiary, consignee, glass receiver, payee, receiver, receiving entity, receiving medium, receiving set, receptionist, receptor, recipient, recipients, scoop, signal receiver, signaling receiver, signalling receiver, transceiver, trough, tuner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φύλακας αποσκευών (consignee), θεματοφύλακασ (bailee, fiduciary, trustee), θεματοφύλακας (depository, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | letéteményes (bailee, depository, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | orang yang menyimpan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | depositario (bailee, custodian, depository, reservoir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thie stoyr (storehouse, warehouse), tashteydane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epositaryday depositario, depositário (bailee, depository, fiduciary, receiver, trustee), consignatário (consignee, factorial, receiver). (various references) depozitar (depository, Guardian, keeper, repository). (various references) банк)депозитарий (depository). (various references) spremište (bunker, depository, warehouse). (various references) depositario (bailee, custodian, depositor, depository, nominee, repository, security custodian, trustee). (various references) depositarie (bailee, depository), förvarare (depository). (various references) emanetçi (bailee, consignee, depository, depot, trustee). (various references) хоронитель (conservator, warden, warder), охоронець (body-guard, caretaker, conservator, custodian, escort, keeper), депозитний. (various references) người nhận đ" gửi, người giữ đ" gửi. (various references) addod (treasure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DEPOSITARY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depositare, dispositer, repositary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEPOSITARY" (pronounced dupÄ"zute'rē) |
| 5 | -u t e' r ē | budgetary, cemetery, cometary, dietary, dignitary, hereditary, interplanetary, military, monetary, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, proprietary, salutary, sanitary, secretary, solitary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unsanitary. |
| 4 | -t e' r ē | commentary, dysentery, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary, monastery, sedentary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: adopters, asperity, asteroid, diaspore, dioptase, diopters, dioptres, dystopia, parodies, parodist, parotids, pastored, peridots, podiatry, proteids, rapidest, readopts, riposted, topsider, traipsed. | |
-3 letters: adipose, adopter, airpost, aridest, aspired, astride, atopies, departs, deports, deposit, despair, destroy, diapers, diaster, dietary, diopter, dioptre, diptera, dispart, disport, disrate, dopiest, editors, esparto, iodates, isotype, opiated, opiates, ostiary, parotid, partied. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: dispensatory, hydropathies. | |
+3 letters: perissodactyl. | |
+4 letters: hydrotherapies, perissodactyls. | |
+5 letters: cyproheptadines, daguerreotypies, daguerreotypist, dermatoglyphics, hydroxyapatites, hyperfastidious. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 50 4F 53 49 54 41 52 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. --- ... .. - .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01010000 01001111 01010011 01001001 01010100 01000001 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E P O S I T A R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0050 004F 0053 0049 0054 0041 0052 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38395049534354355259 |
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