Meaning of Depot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
2. Rare spelling of depot.
   alt-of, rare
3. A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
4. A bus station or railway station.
   US
5. A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
6. A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
7. The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
8. A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
9. The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“depot injection”

“Not less prompt were the Third and Eighth regiments, for they began to arrive in Boston as early as nine, each company welcomed at the dépôt by applauding thousands.”

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