depot (ˈdɛpəʊ
;US English Canadian English ˈdiːpəʊ)
Definitions
noun
- a storehouse or warehouse
- military
- a store for supplies
- a training and holding centre for recruits and replacements
- mainly British a building used for the storage and servicing of buses or railway engines
- US Canadian
- 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
Word Origin
C18: from French dépôt, from Latin dēpositum a deposit, trustUsage examples
About one in the morning, Militia raided the depot where we were.
, CHAMELEON (2002)This moronic celebration of the parochial is a bit like chanting'We support our local tax office' or'We support our local bus depot '.
Spiked (2005)Although vehicles are checked as they enter the depot , the explosives were well hidden.
Irish Times (2002)Allen Robinson, a manager at Brunswick depot , investigated the incidents leading up to the fight.
Liverpool Daily Post and Echo (2003)plumber: The thing is... I've got to pop to the depot to pick up some parts.
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