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depot

/ˈdiːpoʊ/

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What does depot mean?

noun

  1. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
  2. A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
  3. A bus station or railway station.
More meanings (5)

noun

  1. A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
  2. A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
  3. The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
  4. A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
  5. The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

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IPA pronunciation

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Thea passed the cottonwood grove and then the depot, where she left the sidewalk and took the sandy path toward Mexican Town.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
“Michigan Central depot,” he said, standing up and speaking so low that Carrie could not hear, “as fast as you can go.”
Theodore DreiserSister Carrie: A NovelProject Gutenberg ebook #233
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The party reached the Bluff depot on the evening of the 21st and found that Mackintosh had been there on the 19th.
Ernest Henry, Sir ShackletonSouth: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Project Gutenberg ebook #5199
The lunch camp was five miles from the depot, and a good mound with a top of black bunting was left there.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137
Several instances of sudden and strange deaths occurred among the infant children at Depot Island and vicinity while we were encamped there.
William H. (William Henry) GilderSchwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin RecordsProject Gutenberg ebook #6594