depositary
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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
Alibaba’s U.S.-listed depositary receipts fall 3.2% premarket, while SoftBank Group shares closed 5.3% lower in Tokyo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The fund tends to hold stocks as listed locally, although in some cases it holds an American depositary receipt traded in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 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
Why make me the depositary of a secret?
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
Many have become depositaries for their acquaintances, who, fearing the removal of their property to other hands, give it to their intimate friends to keep; and by slaying the Sangleys all render account with payment.
It is this character of witnesses which distinguishes the Apostles from all other depositaries of a Master's cause.
From Pastor Pastorum by Rev. Henry Latham
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
The apostles were the depositaries of these goods, and had under their orders ministers or servants, known by the name of deacons, charged with the distribution of alms.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner