Depositary vs. Depository: What's the Difference?
Depositary and Depository Definitions
Depositary
One entrusted with something for preservation or safekeeping.
Depository
A place where something is deposited, as for storage or safekeeping; a repository.
Depositary
A depository.
Depository
A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation; a repository.
Depositary
Acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
The hospital was the depositary institution of our monies.
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Depository
A trustee; a depositary.
Depository library
Depositary
One who receives goods or a deposit in trust.
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.
Depositary
A place where deposits are kept
Depository
One with whom something is deposited; a depositary.
I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me.
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Depositary
One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; - the correlative of depositor.
I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries.
The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people.
Depository
A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
Depositary
A storehouse; a depository.
Depositary
One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense.
