Depot

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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