depot

n.

1. A railroad or bus station.
2. A warehouse or storehouse.
3. 1. A storage installation for military equipment and supplies.
   2. A station for assembling military recruits and forwarding them to active units.

[French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Latin dēpositum, something deposited, from neuter past participle of dēpōnere, to put down, deposit. See depone.]

(dē′pō)
n

In physiology, the site of accumulation, deposit, or storage of body products not immediately or actively involved in metabolic processes (for example, a fat depot).

[ܒdeܖpō ܒdēܖpō]

ˈdeܖpō ˈdēܖpō n. 1. a place for the storage of large quantities of equipment, food, or some other commodity: an arms depot.

2. the headquarters of a regiment; a place where recruits or other troops are assembled. only conscripts who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

1. A place of deposit; a storehouse or warehouse.
2. A railroad station; a building for the accommodation and shelter of passengers and the receipt and transfer of freight by the railroad.

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A body area in which a substance, e.g. a drug, can be accumulated, deposited or stored and from which it can be distributed.

• fat d. — a site in the body in which large quantities of fat are stored, as in adipose tissue.

(DOD) 1. supply--An activity for the receipt, classification, storage, accounting, issue, maintenance, procurement, manufacture, assembly, research, salvage, or disposal of material. 2. personnel--An activity for the reception, processing, training, assignment, and forwarding of personnel replacements.

IN BRIEF: n. - A depository for goods; Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.

I waited at the train depot for hours.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - lager, depot, remise, regimentshovedkvarter, jernbanestation

Nederlands (Dutch)
depot (opslagplaats), garage (voor ongebruikte bussen/treinen), bus-/ treinstation

Français (French)
n. - (Mil) dépôt, (GB) garage, dépôt, (US) entrepôt, (US) gare, dépôt (bus)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Depot, Lager, Bahnhof

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (στρατιωτική) αποθήκη (βάσης), κεντρικός σταθμός, αμαξοστάσιο, (στρατ.) κέντρο/βάση ανεφοδιασμού

Italiano (Italian)
stazione, deposito

idioms:

• arms depot    arsenale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - depósito (m), armazém (m), estação (f)

idioms:

• arms depot    depósito (m) de armas

Русский (Russian)
депо, склад, станция

idioms:

• arms depot    арсенал

Español (Spanish)
n. - estación, depósito, almacén, cochera

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - depå, förråd

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
火车站, 仓库, 储藏处, 公共汽车站, 兵站

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 火車站, 倉庫, 儲藏處, 公共汽車站, 兵站

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 보관소, 버스 차고, 병참부

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 停車場, バス車庫, 貯蔵所, 倉庫, 兵站部

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مخزن ( لطعام أو معدات مثلا), كراج للسيارت والباصات, محطه قطار أو باص‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מחנה קלט, מחסן, מפקדת חטיבה, חניון אוטובוסים, רכבות או משאיות, תחנת רכבת או אוטובוסים (צפון-אמריקה)‬

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