depot

Plural: depots

Noun

• A place for storage; a station for buses or trains.
• station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
• a depository for goods
• A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
• A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
• A bus station or railway station.
• A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
• A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
• The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
• A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
• The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

Examples

• depot injection
• The tile bag serves as a DEPOT for all the letters, waiting to be drawn.

Synonyms

entrepot, storage, store, storehouse, terminal, terminus

Related Words

deposit, entrepot, entrepôt, posit, position, reposit