depositary
Entrusted property keeper
A depositary is a person or institution entrusted with something for safekeeping.
Banks serve as depositaries for funds; museums for artifacts.
In legal and financial contexts, a depositary holds assets on behalf of others: The bank acts as depositary for the estate.
The word overlaps with depository, though depositary more often refers to a person or entity, while depository refers to a place.
Place holding deposits
- escrowConditional third-party deposit
- accountRecord of dealings
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- fundsAvailable financial resources
assets · capital · treasury · securities · savings · certificate · institution · clearing
One managing another's assets
- guardianProtective caretaker of another
- fiduciaryAgent bound by loyalty
- stewardManager for another
- custodianGuardian of a place
keeper · conservator · caretaker · bailee · escrow agent · nominee · safekeeping · entrustment
Stored historical records
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- storehouseBuilding for stored goods
- registryOfficial record of entries
- repositoryPlace for storing things
records · documentation · secure storage · collection · holdings · inventory · catalogue · register
Confidence in another
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
- settlorTrust's founding party
- trustorTrust agreement maker
- grantorOne who transfers rights
estate · fiduciary duty · testamentary · revocable · irrevocable · inheritance · bequest · devise
bank
Place holding deposits
funds · assets · capital · treasury · securities · savings · certificate · institution · clearing · settlement
trustee
One managing another's assets
custodian · keeper · conservator · caretaker · bailee · escrow agent · nominee · safekeeping · entrustment · safeguard
archive
Stored historical records
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- storehouseBuilding for stored goods
- registryOfficial record of entries
repository · records · documentation · secure storage · collection · holdings · inventory · catalogue · register · conservation
trust
Confidence in another
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
- settlorTrust's founding party
- trustorTrust agreement maker
grantor · estate · fiduciary duty · testamentary · revocable · irrevocable · inheritance · bequest · devise · successor
- UN foundingUnited Nations, UN Charter, United Nations Charter, founding members, original members
- bailmentbailment, bailee, bailor, entrustment, safekeeping
- treaty partspreamble, articles, clauses, provisions, annexes
- treatiestreaty, treaties, peace treaty, peace treaties, bilateral treaty
- fiduciariestrustee, executor, guardian, conservator, custodian
depositaryowner
Holder of title
depositor · proprietor · title holder · legal owner · bailor
deposit, deposited, deposition, depose, depository, deposits, depositor, redeposit