Crossword clues for depot
depot
- Place to stop
- Express stop
- Whistle-stop site
- Where to catch a Greyhound
- Stop on the line
- Railroad terminal
- Rail stop
- Rail station
- Place to store ammo
- Place to meet the train
- Office __: Staples rival
- Office ___
- Holding area
- Greyhound site
- Certain stopping point
- Bus terminus
- Bus place
- Where to get a ticket to ride
- Where to catch a bus
- Where supplies are stored
- Where one might begin riding the rails
- Where commuters convene
- Where a line stops
- Waiting room site
- Union Pacific stop
- Travelers' stopping point
- Travel station
- Transit hub
- Train-catching place
- The Home or Office
- The Home ___ (home improvement chain)
- The Home ___
- Stop on a train route
- Stop for Thomas the Tank Engine
- Stop for a bus
- Stop along the line
- Spot for train spotting
- Redcaps' workplace
- Redcap's place
- Railway place
- Railway facility
- Rail terminal
- Porter's domain
- Place to catch a train
- Place of many boardings
- Place for porters
- Place for boarders
- Pick-up or drop-off site
- Peter Pan destination
- Opted (anag)
- Military supply station
- Military storage space
- Home or Office follower [The AV Club xword moves to a subscription model soon! - sign up at avxword.com]
- Home or Office follower
- Home ___ (Lowe's competitor)
- Home ___ (Big hardware chain)
- Greyhound's stop
- Greyhound's destination
- Greyhound terminus
- Greyhound loading site
- Gare du Nord, e.g
- Freight warehouse
- Freight storehouse
- Bus stop, for example
- Bus or railroad terminal
- Bus garage
- Building for passengers
- Boot camp, e.g
- Boarding building
- Arsenal, for instance
- Amtrak terminal
- Amtrak structure
- Amtrak station
- Station
- Stopping point for a conductor
- Redcap's domain
- Train stop
- Storage area
- Train station
- Bus station
- Place for a pickup
- Embarkation location
- Where lines may cross
- Redcap's workplace
- Point on a line
- Where to get off
- End of the line, e.g.
- Greyhound stop
- Stepping-off point
- Railroad station
- Point along a line
- Pickup line locale?
- Place for military supplies
- Stop on a line
- Commercial word after Home or Office
- Where buses are parked
- The Home ___ (Lowe's rival)
- Warehouse, storehouse
- Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- A depository for goods
- Type of magazine
- Magazine for military stores
- Boot camp's cousin
- Terminal
- Storage base
- Bus stop?
- Boot camp, e.g.
- Gare du Nord, e.g.
- Storehouse, warehouse
- Supply station
- Busman's destination
- Bus terminal
- Cache
- Etape
- Military warehouse
- Girl keeping record in warehouse
- Mark stores record in warehouse
- Extremely destructive drug found in storage facility
- Warehouse often got smashed up
- Store had several drinks put back
- Storage location
- Storage facility
- Storage facility had a few jars knocked over
- Small girl going round record store
- Scatter round record store
- Drank heavily on the way up to warehouse
- Dorothy keeps record in storehouse
- Department stores ring warehouse
- Storage spot
- Storage place
- Military storehouse
- Where do you get off?
- Stopping place
- End of the line, e.g
- Boarding place
- Whistle stop
- Train terminal
- Amtrak stop
- The bus stops here
- Place to get off
- Military store
- Home __: Lowe's rival
- Whistle-stop hot spot
- Transportation station
- Training area
- Supply base
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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). -
(Mil.)
A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.
(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.
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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
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
n. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
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.