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depot

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

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a railroad station.
Synonyms: terminal
a bus station.
Synonyms: terminal
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.
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 /

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

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

Origin of depot¹

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

Origin of depot¹

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

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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