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UK
/dɪpˈɒsɪt/
]
[ US /dəˈpɑzɪt, dɪˈpɑzət/ ]
[ US /dəˈpɑzɪt, dɪˈpɑzət/ ]
NOUN
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money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use
his deposit was refunded when he returned the car - the act of putting something somewhere
- a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
- the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
- a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met
- matter that has been deposited by some natural process
- money deposited in a bank or some similar institution
VERB
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put (something somewhere) firmly
deposit the suitcase on the bench
She posited her hand on his shoulder
fix your eyes on this spot -
put, fix, force, or implant
stick your thumb in the crack
lodge a bullet in the table -
put into a bank account
She deposits her paycheck every month
How To Use deposit In A Sentence
- The seeds were then cut in half longitudinally and deposited on a sterile Whatman No.1 filter paper impregnated with 1% tetrazolium chloride.
- The transitional zones between low backgrounds of W Mo group elements and iron group and chalcophile elements are the favorable enriched zones of uranium deposits.
- This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
- Copper is known to be taken into solution as copper sulphate at the surface, and to be redeposited as chalcocite where these sulphate solutions come in contact with chalcopyrite or pyrite below. The Economic Aspect of Geology
- The deposits had tinctorial properties of collagen using Masson trichrome stain and the van Gieson method for collagen, although the deposits were mostly dissolved using the Masson trichrome procedure.
- They normally ask you to pay ￡100 deposit.
- This is a metabolic disorder whereby excess uric acid in the blood gets deposited in joints.
- The unclaimed jewellery was part of the estimated ￡60m haul taken from the Knightsbridge Security deposit box robbery in 1987.
- On these relics of antiquity and of ancestorial memorials devolving on Dr. Jefferson, he sought for a place of deposit for them, suitable to their dignity, their character, and their times. The Scottish Chiefs
- I clicked the 'Live Chat' button, and lo and behold, I was deposited in a chat room with what sounded suspiciously like a chatbot.
