The phrase "as a depository for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a place or medium where something is stored or kept for future use.
Example: "The library serves as a depository for rare manuscripts and historical documents."
Alternatives: "as a storage for" or "as a repository for".
Hot spells occur because surfaces are heating and the oceans serve as a depository for that accumulating energy.
A half century ago, before the destruction of Crematorium IV, this pond served as a depository for the ashes and unburned bone fragments from the crematoriums' twelve ovens.
The bureau headquarters at Sèvres, France, serves as a depository for the primary international standards and as a laboratory for certification and comparison of national standard copies.
The plaza is still being used as a depository for unidentified bodies, which are laid in black vinyl bags on one side of the square.
Gokhran, formed in 1920 as a depository for jewelry confiscated from the bourgeoisie and from the millions of people sent to gulag camps under Stalin, had long embodied the mystery around Soviet and then Russian gold policy.
This is a turnaround from the days when car makers used their rental fleets as a depository for slow-moving models (such as Ford's Taurus).The only option for Budget now is to get bigger and try for economies of scale.
By the end of the century, a punning Spanish priest who knew his classical languages denounced the Vat as being not so much a biblioteca — the word comes from the Greek for a "depository for books" — as a bibliotaphio, a "tomb for books".
It even has a depository for what our LG rep refers to as "aroma sheets" that imbue your clothing with certain scents, though it also seems like users will be able throw in their own scented materials.
"It can be a room that's a depository for all of the husband's paraphernalia that the wife doesn't want to see, such as things from the college basketball team," Mr. Watson said.
A dried-up stretch of the riverbed is now a depository for plastic bottles, used tires and trash.
Our second data source is from Justice Atlas, which is run by the Justice Mapping Center, a depository for corrections data for various states in the US.
