[ UK /dˈɛpə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈdipoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a depository for goods
    storehouses were built close to the docks
  2. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
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How To Use depot In A Sentence

  • His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
  • Protesters have hit out at a company's plans to expand its already huge food distribution depot beside the main road.
  • As the train stopped for its human freight at each station it slowly gathered a cargo of trammies and bussies making for their depots.
  • Shelters are constructed for officers, and depots for the storage and distribution of supplies are also erected.
  • Don't be fooled by English English," advised Columbia: "the accent is like a mouthful of pudding, and when they mean to say the weather is bad they say it is 'nawsty;' they call their rubbers 'galoshes,' their dépôts 'stations,' and when they start on a journey they get their Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
  • The Labour council broke off negotiations after the strikes last week, claiming that there had been violence at the depot where the strikebreaking dustcarts operate.
  • Adipose tissue is not simply a depot of energy, but is an active endocrine organ.
  • In the end the Company Commander and the Company Sergeant Major managed to obtain a box of compo rations after a certain amount of argument with the supply depot, who said the Battalion held such things for emergencies!
  • Next in importance after Ashford in east Kent were the running depots (engine sheds) of the two rival lines, where a number of engines were based, cleaned and maintained, and where the majority of the footplate crews were based.
  • The new production of the Forsythe Company debuts on 21 April, 7: 30 pm at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt / Main
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