depositary

From Late Latin dēpositārius.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɒzɪtɹi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɑzɪtɛɹi/

depositary (not comparable)

1. Acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.

   The hospital was the depositary institution of our monies.

• depositary receipt

depositary (plural depositaries)

1. One who receives goods or a deposit in trust.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] 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

• (one who receives in trust): trustee
• (place where deposits are kept): depository