MEANING
1. A place or organized system where objects, records, or information are stored and can be found.
2. A person, book, or other work containing substantial knowledge or detailed information.
Use it for
identifying where research evidence is held; describing the storage and retrieval of records; distinguishing a source collection from an interpretation of itIdentifies where evidence or knowledge is held without treating storage as a guarantee of reliability. Academic functions: Evidence, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- data repository
- archival repository
- repository of records
On the page
The methods section identifies the repository holding the documents used in the comparison.
A public data repository improves access, but the deposited material still requires checks for completeness and accuracy.
The oral-history project treats longtime residents as repositories of local memory without assuming that their accounts are error-free.
The handbook became a repository of practical knowledge accumulated across several institutions.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- repository
Usage notes
Count noun: repository, repositories; repository of or for records, knowledge, or objects. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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