Definitions for registries

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registries reg·is·try

Spelling: [rej-uh-stree]

IPA: /ˈrɛdʒ ə stri/

Registries is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in registries (eegiirrsst).

Definitions for registries

noun

1. the act of registering; registration.
2. a place where a register is kept; an office of registration.
3. register (defs 1, 2).
4. the state of being registered.
5. the nationality of a merchant ship as shown on its register.

Origin of registries

First recorded in 1475-85; regist(er) + -ry

Examples for registries

There is much opposition to the enactment of a registry law.

The lying that goes on in the registry Court would astonish Englishmen.

I could not do so, being merely the proprietor of a Servant's registry Office.

The registry regularly produces tables of how many people officially reside in each settlement.

This June, hawkish columnist Guy Bechor cited it in Yediot Aharonot—and attributed it to the registry.

He had offered it to her on coming out of the registry Office, and she had accepted it silently.

In the registry, the settler population is always a few percent above the more accurate CBS figure.

He also wrote that the registry lists 385,000 settlers in the rest of the West Bank.

A young fellow that my groom got at a servants' registry office.

The second number was 50 percent too high—and wasn't actually attributed to the registry.