depot

Definitions


[ˈdɛpəʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a place for the storage of large quantities of equipment, food, or goods
(e.g: an arms depot)

- a place where buses, trains, or other vehicles are housed and maintained and from which they are dispatched for service

- a place where recruits are trained or other troops are assembled
(e.g: only conscripts who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 18th century (in the sense ‘act of depositing’): from French dépôt, from Latin depositum ‘something deposited’ (see deposit)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries