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Depository

A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.

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Archive 76% connected

The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

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Bank 76% connected

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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Depot 76% connected

A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Entrepot 76% connected

A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in tra…

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Library 76% connected

A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

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Museum 76% connected

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

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Repertory 76% connected

A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.

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Storage 76% connected

The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

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Store 76% connected

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

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Storehouse 76% connected

A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.

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Treasury 76% connected

A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is dis…

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Facility 76% connected

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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Installation 76% connected

The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained mini…

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Deposit 92% connected

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich al…

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Depositary 92% connected

One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor.

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Repository 92% connected

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.

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