DEPOSITARY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

A storehouse; a depository. Bp. Hurd.

3.
n.

One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent.


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