depositary

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English

Etymology

From Late Latin dēpositārius.

Pronunciation

Adjective

depositary (not comparable)

  1. Acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
    The hospital was the depositary institution of our monies.

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Noun

depositary (plural depositaries)

  1. One who receives goods or a deposit in trust.
    • 1831, L E L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 149:
      She was also depositary of the golden chain, the produce of whose sale was to be devoted to the nurse's support.
    • 2023 April 3, Associated Press, “What are the last steps for Finland’s NATO membership?”, in PBS NewsHour‎, PBS, retrieved 2023-04-03:
      The United States is the depositary, or safekeeper, of NATO under the alliance’s 1949 founding treaty.
  2. A place where deposits are kept

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