depot

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈdɛpəʊ//
United States//ˈdiːpoʊ//
Australia//ˈdepɐʉ//

A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.

noun

1
A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
Near-synonyms: depository, repository
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
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.
4
A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
5
A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
6
The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
7
A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
depot injection
8
The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

Etymology

From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.

Forms

plural: depots

deposit · Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location…deposition · The removal of someone from office.Deposition · The removal of Jesus from the cross.

depot · A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.

depraved · Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.depressed · Unhappy; despondent.depressing · Causing depression or sadness.

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