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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
depot
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ We have also invested for the future in two new depots.
■ NOUN
bus
▪ Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.
▪ Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.
▪ The scheme would involve the relocation of the United Bus depot to another site in Darlington.
▪ Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot.
▪ There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.
▪ His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
▪ The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.
storage
▪ Fats are passed to fat storage depots and sugars to the liver and muscles.
▪ A temporary storage depot would have to be established by 1995 and a second would have to be available around 2005.
▪ Also, the group's 100 storage depots have enough space to house 70 Royal Albert Halls.
supply
▪ Mr Loyden's constituency covers Garston docks the main supply depot for battle convoys.
▪ Here was established a combination supply depot and base of operations.
▪ A supply depot was established at Cambuskenneth, within a protective loop of the river.
tram
▪ On the right is the old St. Annes tram depot, now a bus garage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a weapons depot
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bars had sprung up on South Railroad Street and around the depot, and robberies and brawls were commonplace.
▪ It's stored in a depot in Monpazier at the moment.
▪ Special emergency trailers are located at depots at Bromborough, Stanford-le-Hope, Glasgow and Hull.
▪ The original Company depot was built in Copse Road, and used largely as a store for surplus cars.
▪ The worst snow storm was in January 1940, when ten trams and a bus failed to make the depot.
▪ Toton and Tinsley are good examples of depots with specific sub-sector allegiances and covering a wide geographical area.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depot

Depot \De"pot\ (d[=e]"p[-o]; French d[asl]*p[=o]"; 277), n. [F. d['e]p[^o]t, OF. depost, fr. L. depositum a deposit. See Deposit, n.]

  1. A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.

    The islands of Guernsey and Jersey are at present the great depots of this kingdom.
    --Brit. Critic (1794).

  2. (Mil.)

    1. A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.

    2. (Eng. & France) The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.

  3. A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight. [U. S.]

    Syn: See Station.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
depot

1795, "warehouse," from French dépôt "a deposit, place of deposit," from Old French depost "a deposit or pledge," from Latin depositum "a deposit," noun use of neuter past participle of deponere "lay aside" (see deposit (v.)). Military sense is from 1798; meaning "railway station" is first recorded 1842, American English.

Wiktionary
depot

n. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.

WordNet
depot
  1. n. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods [syn: terminal, terminus]

  2. a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" [syn: storehouse, entrepot, storage, store]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Depot

Depot ( or ) is from the French dépôt which means a deposit (as in geology or banking) or a storehouse. In English, depot can mean any one of a number of things, with minor variances between the different English speaking countries:

Usage examples of "depot".

They were standing a couple of hundred feet above the level of the Tiefer depot.

Both the men were working her husband, Hub, down at the airfreight depot in Waycross, and son Dave hauling sand and gravel over near Bickley.

McGuire found himself as he tumbled from his car and sat upon the depot platform, torn by a spasm of that hollow, racking cough so familiar to San Antonian ears.

This supply depot was attacked by the Earl of Atholl and Sir William and many of the guards were killed.

Coolin to Henry Withers, of the Sick Horse Depot, two hours afterwards, when the Berkshires and the Sikhs and the Bengalese were on the march towards Tamai.

He stopped in front of the depot and looked at Calao, trying hard not to show any fear in his eyes.

The cartman who had taken the trunk to the depot came forward, after reading the account of the affair in the newspapers, and conducted the police to the house where he had received it.

The family remained at Bunda-Bunda, a claypan south of Jigalong, except for the occasional trips to the depot to pick up food rations and to gather the latest news and gossip.

Therefore I say, after due thought and consideration, that this William Dykar, chief surgeon of the depot at Dartmoor from 1809 to 1814, was a deliberate and coldblooded murderer.

Frank Jackson gave her a compassionate discharge when she married Sterling Pridmore and the blessed event turned out to be twins, rather than accommodate the babies in the Erfurt Supply Depot, although Amber Lee was quite willing to soldier on.

Dennis promptly hired her as his executive assistant, to continue as a civilian doing the job she had done in the military, so the twins were spending their days in the Erfurt Supply Depot anyway.

There were several people waiting for the train, and as it chugged toward the depot, the white flagman waved it down.

As there were no landmarks, we had to indicate the position of our depots by flags, which were posted at a distance of about four miles to the east and west.

The old tracks were soon lost sight of, but we immediately picked up the line of flags that had been set up at every second kilometre on the last depot journey.

Most were left in depots about 100 kilometers back, however, where they could be moved quickly to the frontline troops if Saddam ordered it but where they were unlikely to be fired accidentally.