a distribution depot for auto parts
the guns and ammunition were stored in a depot in Concord
Recent Examples on the WebAurora On a sunny morning in December, an 18-wheeler will pull into a truck depot in Palmer, Texas, just south of Dallas.—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024 Pictured here are cars ready for export at the Haitong Automobile Terminal depot in Taicang Port, Suzhou, Jiangsu province of China on Aug. 10, 2024.—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024 Parker is based in San Francisco, where Lightship does research and development and opened a service center and depot.—Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2024 In October and December of that year, a series of ammunition depots in the Czech Republic, a NATO country, were bombed and ultimately destroyed; the Czechs had been supplying weapons to Ukraine.—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for depot
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Word History
Etymology
French dépôt, from Middle French depost, from Medieval Latin depositum, from Latin, neuter of depositus
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