depositary
Acting as the trusted recipient of a depositActing as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
UK/dɪˈpɒzɪtɹi/US/dɪˈpɑzɪtɛɹi/
Meaning
1 senses(not comparable)Acting as the trusted recipient of a deposit.
The hospital was the depositary institution of our monies.
Origin
Borrowed from Late Latin dēpositārius.Borrowed from Late Latin dēpositārius.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Word family
1 related wordsDeriveddepositary receipt
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.