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depositary

[dih-poz-i-ter-ee] / dɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɛr i /
NOUN
fiduciary
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Alibaba’s New York Stock Exchange-listed depositary receipts are indicating virtually unchanged from Monday’s close at $118.64 in pre-market trading Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Its American depositary receipts remain more than 20% lower this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

As custodian or depositary, the trust company sometimes holds property the title to which is in dispute, delivering the same when the ownership is legally determined.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

After the ocean left the land, and the hills became the depositaries of the clouds, how many ages must have elapsed before the beds of rivers were circumscribed as we now see them in England.

From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips

Lands of the same age contain different fossils, just as depositaries very far distant from each other enclose similar ones.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert

And lastly, B and א are undeniably, more than any other two Codexes which can be named, the depositaries of one and the same peculiar, all but unique, text.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

He sought for another topic, and hit upon sport as one more congenial to the tastes of the depositaries of public trust.

From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s

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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