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depositary

[dih-poz-i-ter-ee] / dɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɛr i /
NOUN
fiduciary
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SK Hynix planned to list on the Nasdaq via American depositary receipts, a move Cheong believed would help keep the firm’s South Korean-listed shares elevated for longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

SK Hynix, which conducted an IPO of U.S. shares in July and trades on the Nasdaq, saw its American depositary receipts rise 4% in premarket action Wednesday following the buyback announcement.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

At the time it said that despite the scale and depth of U.S. capital markets, switching its listing or having a sponsored American depositary receipts program wouldn’t offer better value for shareholders at that time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

SK Hynix’s American depositary receipts were off 9% after the company’s Korea-listed shares lost 14% in overseas trading.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Why make me the depositary of a secret?

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

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

Like the Charters of Harvard and Yale, it indicates that the clergy were regarded, generally, as the best depositaries of educational trusts.

From The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

Before the suppression of the friars, the convents were the great depositaries of this species of treasure. 

From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

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




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