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Depositary
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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. One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent.