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depositary

[dih-poz-i-ter-ee] / dɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɛr i /
NOUN
fiduciary
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American depositary receipts of Li Auto were recently about 1% lower in premarket trading after the results.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The company’s American depositary receipts fell 5% in premarket trading.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Alibaba’s American depositary receipts rose 5.1% on Friday following the report, while Nvidia’s stock was up 2.9%.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

To disappoint investors just a few weeks after its $29 billion listing of depositary receipts on Nasdaq demonstrated poor “communication and messaging,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Next I firmly refused to become the depositary of her property.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi

Hence, the Priests were required to be intimately acquainted with the Sacred Scripture, because they were the depositaries of God's law, and were its expounders to the people.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

He felt they were safe depositaries, just as he would have felt a lonely spot in a wood a secure hiding-place for whatever he wanted to conceal.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

The leading inquiry in the examination of any system of government must, of course, concern primarily the real depositaries and the essential machinery of power.

From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

Whether regarded as historical records or as writings embodying the mere tradition of the early Christians, our Gospels cannot be recognized as the exclusive depositaries of the genuine sayings and doings of Jesus.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

The following, says Mr. Forster, are some of the benefits resulting from the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts:— That reform has reduced the depositaries for wills in this country from nearly 400 to 40.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury




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