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depot
[ dee-poh; Military or British dep-oh ]
noun
- a railroad station.
Synonyms:
- a bus station.
Synonyms:
- Military.
- a place in which supplies and materials are stored for distribution.
- (formerly) a place where recruits are assembled for classification, initial training, and assignment to active units.
- a storehouse or warehouse, as a building where freight is deposited.
- Physiology. a place where body products not actively involved in metabolic processes are accumulated, deposited, or stored.
depot
/ ˈdiËpəʊ; ˈdÉ›pəʊ /
noun
- a storehouse or warehouse
- military
- a store for supplies
- a training and holding centre for recruits and replacements
- a building used for the storage and servicing of buses or railway engines
- 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
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³Ü²ú·»å±ðp´Ç³Ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of depot1
Example Sentences
Elsewhere, striking bin workers, who are members of Unite the Union, claimed they were "threatened" with arrest and fines if they continued to delay bin lorries leaving a depot in Tyseley.
The city council has not commented on the claim, but said residents "should not be dumping waste on the street", and should be taking their bin bags to mobile waste centres or recycling depots.
Mr Cotton said a lot of the difficulty in clearing the waste in the streets had been caused by staff on picket lines who, he said, were preventing vehicles from getting out of depot.
Among their targets are oil refineries and fuel depots.
Officials in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar said that a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a small fire at an oil depot.
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