repository

noun5

1. •
   A location for storage, often for safety or preservation.

   • Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation." — 1982
2. •
   A storage location for files, such as downloadable software packages, or files in a source control system.

   • OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April. — 2025
3. •
   A burial vault.
4. •
   (figurative) A person to whom a secret is entrusted.
5. •
   (old-fashioned) A place where things are stored for sale; a shop.