depot

About 3.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
2. noun A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
3. noun A bus station or railway station.
4. noun A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
5. noun A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
6. noun The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
7. noun A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.

   depot injection

8. noun The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

Similar words

entrepot storehouse store storage terminal terminus godown warehousing warehouse stockroom

Often followed by

and at of for in was to on is

Word family

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