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depot
[ dee-poh; Military or British dep-oh ]
noun
- a railroad station.
Synonyms: terminal
- a bus station.
Synonyms: terminal
- Military.
- a place in which supplies and materials are stored for distribution.
- (formerly) a place where recruits are assembled for classification, initial training, and assignment to active units.
- a storehouse or warehouse, as a building where freight is deposited.
- Physiology. a place where body products not actively involved in metabolic processes are accumulated, deposited, or stored.
depot
/ ˈdiːpəʊ; ˈdɛpəʊ /
noun
- a storehouse or warehouse
- military
- a store for supplies
- a training and holding centre for recruits and replacements
- a building used for the storage and servicing of buses or railway engines
- a bus or railway station
- ( as modifier )
a depot manager
adjective
- (of a drug or drug dose) designed for gradual release from the site of an injection so as to act over a long period
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- sub·depot noun
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of depot1
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Example Sentences
If you think of her in retail terms, Hillary is Costco, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot all rolled into one mega-mega-mega-store.
In Georgia, MARTA (the Metropolitan Atlantic Rapid Transit Authority) built a huge solar canopy at its bus depot in Decatur.
This was the one-room studio in Mill Valley, California near The Depot.
Camera pans toward window, and we see it, shining like a glorious traffic cone: The Home Depot.
There's a little railroad depot known quite well By all the people Called Zhankoye, Dzhan, Dzhan, Dzahn.
A few years back it was partly turned into a depot for American meat, but is now simply used for warehouses.
You'll have to sit in the depot till it stops rainin' a little, and I'll find you a place till mornin'.
"We'll be settin' right in the depot waitin' for it," said Mandy, who declined to take chances.
As there was, fortunately, a depot for coals here, we were allowed a few hours to do as we liked.
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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