repository vs depository
Definitions
noun
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Examples
This institute shall act as a repository for all modern extrication and medical relief techniques to ensure quicker rescue and provide prompt medical relief, comparable to international standards.
Where items need to be transported to and from the repository they should be in appropriate containers designed to limit exposure to environmental factors and handling damage (eg. folders, archive boxes, plan and art folios, phase and solander boxes).
The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable.
Definitions
noun
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
Examples
A ‘Space Access Organization’ would, at least, be able to gather all the hard-won data from these canceled programs and maintain a central depository of information and expert knowledge.
One example of which is the e-banking solutions offered by BBK, which provide new generation services through its user friendly award winning website, along with the telebanking, Cash depository machines and ATM services.
Despite a lack of spacial limitations imposed on the text, the Factbook is far from a depository of ‘raw data.’
