depot

[ dee-poh; Military or British dep-oh ]

noun

1. a railroad station.

   Synonyms: terminal

2. a bus station.

   Synonyms: terminal

3. Military.
   1. a place in which supplies and materials are stored for distribution.
   2. (formerly) a place where recruits are assembled for classification, initial training, and assignment to active units.
4. a storehouse or warehouse, as a building where freight is deposited.
5. Physiology. a place where body products not actively involved in metabolic processes are accumulated, deposited, or stored.

depot

/ ˈdiːpəʊ; ˈdɛpəʊ /

noun

1. a storehouse or warehouse
2. military
   1. a store for supplies
   2. a training and holding centre for recruits and replacements
3. a building used for the storage and servicing of buses or railway engines
4. 1. a bus or railway station
   2. ( as modifier )

      a depot manager

adjective

1. (of a drug or drug dose) designed for gradual release from the site of an injection so as to act over a long period

Other Words From

• sub·depot noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of depot¹

1785–95; < French dépot < Latin dēpositum, noun use of neuter of dēpositus; deposit

Word History and Origins

Origin of depot¹

C18: from French dépôt, from Latin dēpositum a deposit, trust

Example Sentences

Mice, for example, have depots of it between their shoulder blades.

From Science News For Students

It’s thought that different visceral and subcutaneous fat depots develop from different precursor cells – cells that can become fat cells.

From No Straight News

This means more fat will be stored in the less safe visceral depots.

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The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Water Board, which regulates local water quality, charged gasoline giant Kinder Morgan Energy Partners with cleanup after the company bought the fuel depot in 1998.

From Voice of San Diego

Only a few years earlier, it had pushed the Navy to create a coal depot here.

From Voice of San Diego

If you think of her in retail terms, Hillary is Costco, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot all rolled into one mega-mega-mega-store.

From The Daily Beast

In Georgia, MARTA (the Metropolitan Atlantic Rapid Transit Authority) built a huge solar canopy at its bus depot in Decatur.

From The Daily Beast

This was the one-room studio in Mill Valley, California near The Depot.

From The Daily Beast

Camera pans toward window, and we see it, shining like a glorious traffic cone: The Home Depot.

From The Daily Beast

There's a little railroad depot known quite well By all the people Called Zhankoye, Dzhan, Dzhan, Dzahn.

From The Daily Beast

A few years back it was partly turned into a depot for American meat, but is now simply used for warehouses.

From Project Gutenberg

You'll have to sit in the depot till it stops rainin' a little, and I'll find you a place till mornin'.

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"We'll be settin' right in the depot waitin' for it," said Mandy, who declined to take chances.

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As there was, fortunately, a depot for coals here, we were allowed a few hours to do as we liked.

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As the Rome branch connected with the main road above the depot, he encountered no hindrance, and it was now a fair race.

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Related Words

• armory
• garage
• store
• storehouse
• terminal
• yard