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MUSCOVITE Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

repository VS depository

Hi,

If you could comment on the pair

(1) file repository
(2) file depository

It looks like (1) is used much more often than (2) (when referring to a place in the file system/media storage device where computer users keep their files).

Is it possible to explain the difference between "repository" and "depository" in just a few words (in this specific context)?

mus-te
  

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" For example: He's a professor of English and a veritable repository of knowledge about the language. There's a night depository at the bank for after-hours deposits from businesses. " But since "repository" is considered a "higher-level" word, that may be why it is (incorrectly) used more often in this context.

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  • " For example: He's a professor of English and a veritable repository of knowledge about the language.
  • There's a night depository at the bank for after-hours deposits from businesses.
  • " But since "repository" is considered a "higher-level" word, that may be why it is (incorrectly) used more often in this context.
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The word "repository" is more abstract and is considered a "higher-level" type of word than the word "depository." For example:

He's a professor of English and a veritable repository of knowledge about the language.

There's a night depository at the bank for after-hours deposits from businesses.

In a computer storage context, it would seem that "depository" would be mor
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