depositary Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
    depository; repository; deposit.

WordNet

De*pos"i*ta*ry noun
Etymology
L. depositarius, fr. deponere. See Deposit.
Wordforms
plural Depositaries
Definitions
  1. 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. Shak.
    The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people.J.S. Mill.
  2. A storehouse; a depository. Bp. Hurd.
  3. (Law) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent.

Webster 1913