depot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a railway or bus station where passengers or goods are loaded and unloaded, especially in North American English

   A crowd gathered at the railway depot to meet the evening train.

2. 2
   noun

   a place where large quantities of goods, equipment, or supplies are stored

   Relief agencies moved the food from the central depot to nearby villages.

3. 3
   noun

   a base where vehicles are kept, maintained, and dispatched

   The last bus returned to the depot shortly after midnight.

Borrowed from French dépôt, from Old French depost and Medieval Latin depositum, 'something placed for safekeeping,' from Latin deponere, 'to put down.' Depot and deposit are doublets from the same source.

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