depot
/ˈdiːpoʊ/ noun C1- A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. · Near-synonyms: depository, repository
- 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.
- 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. · depot injection
- The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
Plural depots
From the library
There is Mortimer’s, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane’s carriage-building depot.
He ordered another—an oil sketch of the Lackawanna freight depot—to take back with him.
He got his depot to-day, and he isn’t sure but he thinks he wants another parkscape and a view on the Hudson.
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