26984 words

registry

5 definitions • 9 examples
1
a place where official records are kept:

Examples:

a land/business/electoral registry
2
an official list or record, or a place where official records are kept:

Examples:

a voter registry
3
an official record of people or things relating to a business or other activity:

Examples:

The centre manages an online registry of share ownership.
on/in the registry Sixty companies have been listed on the registry since it opened.
There was no reliable public property registry.
4
an organization or place that keeps official records:

Examples:

You can get the dates from the central registry in the town hall.
The registry has now published the statewide cancer data.
5
on some computer systems, the place on the computer where information is recorded about software settings on the computer:

Examples:

In order for your computer to know how to run properly, the registry sets up instructions for it to follow.
A slow computer is often the result of registry errors.

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