Depot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A railroad or bus station.
  • n. A warehouse or storehouse.
  • n. A storage installation for military equipment and supplies.
  • n. A station for assembling military recruits and forwarding them to active units.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a warehouse or similar storage facility
  • n. a bus or railway station
  • n. a place where military recruits are assembled before being sent to active units
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.
  • n.
  • n. A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.
  • n. The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.
  • n. A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A place of deposit; a depository; a warehouse or storehouse for receiving goods for storage, sale, or transfer, as on a railroad or other line of transportation.
  • n. Specifically A railroad-station; a building for the accommodation and shelter of passengers and the receipt and transfer of freight by railroad.
  • n. Milit.: A military magazine, as a fort, where stores, ammunition, etc., are deposited; or a station where recruits for different regiments are received and drilled, and where soldiers who cannot accompany their regiments remain.
  • n. The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and whence they are distributed.
  • n. In Great Britain, that portion of a battalion, generally consisting of two companies, which remains at home when the rest are ordered on foreign service.
  • n. In fortification, a particular place at the tail of the trenches, out of the reach of the cannon of the place, where the troops generally assemble who are ordered to attack the outworks.
  • n. Sometimes written with the French accents, dépôt or depôt.
  • n. Synonyms Depot, Station, Freight-house. In the United States, at first the places for landing railroad-passengers and -freight were called depots, passenger-depots, freight-depots; but the use of station for the landing-place of passengers is gradually increasing, while freight-house is the most common word for a separate storage-place.
  • n. Milit.: A place where military prisoners are confined.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a depository for goods
  • n. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    station    warehouse    storehouse   
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    filippo    repo   
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