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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
registry
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a registry office weddingBritish English (= at a local government office, not in a church)
▪ They decided to have a registry office wedding.
land registry
registry office
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
land
▪ Stamp duty; Land registry fees.
▪ Get written details of all fees involved - valuation, land registry and the cost of indemnity.
office
▪ The registry office couldn't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day.
▪ The witnesses were people who worked at the registry office.
▪ If you're tying the knot at a registry office, this timeless style is ideal.
▪ The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless.
▪ It was originally intended that couples would register their partnerships in local authority registry offices.
▪ They were married at a registry office and had a quiet reception.
▪ They were also married in a registry office.
▪ The offices, in an old registry office, are still being worked on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ships of U.S. registry
▪ the Registry of Motor Vehicles
▪ the bridal registry at Robinson's Department Store
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A registry of these applications for cimetidine use during 1977-81 is available.
▪ Defense Department data show that about 35, 884 active-duty soldiers have signed up on its Gulf War medical registry.
▪ If the registry manager wants to invest in new equipment or more clerks, he has to convince the legislature.
▪ Moreover, a central registry of convictions is kept to enable the Office of Fair Trading to identify businesses for possible action.
▪ The case will be heard in the Newcastle District registry on March 5.
▪ The name and port of registry were applied in gold leaf.
▪ The researchers used a cancer registry and found that 419 were diagnosed with stomach cancer by 1992.
▪ There is no registry for providing data on a national scale.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Registry

Registry \Reg"is*try\ (r?j"?s*tr?), n.

  1. The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.

  2. The place where a register is kept.

  3. A record; an account; a register.
    --Sir W. Temple.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
registry

late 15c., "act of registering;" see register + -y (4). Meaning "book of record" is from 1620s.

Wiktionary
registry

n. 1 A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept. 2 A record; an account; a register. 3 The act of registering; registration. 4 (context computing English) A database of configurations etc. maintained by the (w: Microsoft Windows) operating system.

WordNet
registry

n. an official written record of names or events or transactions [syn: register]

Wikipedia
Registry

Registry may refer to:

Usage examples of "registry".

November balloting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered local elections supervisors to purge 57,700 voters from registries on grounds they were felons not entitled to vote in Florida.

You made a few honest trade runs under a new registry before you then reinsured it, and then you sunk it on the summit of the seamount so you could always get at the remains for spare parts needed to make phony modifications on future acquisitions to your ill-gotten fleet God, how all the buccaneers of the Spanish Main would have envied your organization, Delphi.

Animal Registry in these pajamas, with my tits poking out on top and my woofy showing down south?

According to Brayson, this Adler had already hijacked an oil tanker--the Noramo Pride, American registry.

Pam asked, remembering that the Carib Queen was, after all, of British registry.

The Chinook dog, once nearly extinct, had just been added to the list of 146 - now 147 breeds and varieties recognized by the United Kennel Club, the largest working-dog registry and the second-largest all-breed registry in the United States.

Fanconi anemia, but they both knew how to navigate a medical database, and within days they found Arleen Auerbach, a researcher at Rockefeller University in New York and the keeper of the Fanconi patient registry in the United States and Canada, a list that contains about 800 names.

They awoke on the deck of a tramp steamer of Liberian registry somewhere in the North Atlantic.

Fagan says many errors could have been eliminated by matching the Social Security numbers of ex-felons on DBT lists to the Social Security numbers on voter registries.

I do understand what moves a breed from the faceless hell of nonrecognition to the heaven of acceptance by a major registry.

Renatta and the DNA Cowboys raced up the steps, followed by the handful of survivors from the fire post, running for the shelter of the central registry building as beams and bullets smashed into the stonework under their feet.

The voter fraud law required all 67 counties to purge voter registries of duplicate registrations, deceased voters and felons, many of whom, but not all, are barred from voting in Florida.

The laudable aim is to rid registries of the names of the dead, as well as of felons and others legally barred from voting.

Every so often someone proposes a registry of companies and a regulator to create them, but the backbenches won't ever approve that—it would take a large bite out of their living.

Yaeger was the one who tentatively identified the ship as the Baekje, based on a worldwide review of ship registries through his NUMA computer bank.