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depot
[ dee-poh; Military or British dep-oh ]
noun
- a railroad station.
Synonyms:
- a bus station.
Synonyms:
- 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
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·pdz noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of depot1
Example Sentences
Explosions have taken place at a Russian ammunition depot east of Moscow, the country's defence ministry has said.
The body needed a depot for this energy and the abdomen, being the most expandable area, became the prime storage site.
As residents' frustrations have increased about the situation, focus fell on the tactics being used by picketers and demonstrators to delay non-striking crews and their wagons from leaving depots.
Birmingham City Council said on Tuesday morning: "All of our waste wagons have been deployed from our three depots citywide this morning."
Birmingham City Council said it had more than 20 bin lorries out on Saturday and Sunday, with vehicles now being unimpeded by striking workers as they left depots.
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