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depot
/ˈdiːpoʊ/
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What does depot mean?
noun
- A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
- A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
- A bus station or railway station.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
- A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
- The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
- A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
- 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.
“Michigan Central depot,” he said, standing up and speaking so low that Carrie could not hear, “as fast as you can go.”
More book examples (3)
The party reached the Bluff depot on the evening of the 21st and found that Mackintosh had been there on the 19th.
The lunch camp was five miles from the depot, and a good mound with a top of black bunting was left there.
Several instances of sudden and strange deaths occurred among the infant children at Depot Island and vicinity while we were encamped there.