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depot

noun

ˈde-(ˌ)pō

Definition of depot

as in warehouse

a building for storing goods a distribution depot for auto parts

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as in armory

a place where military arms are stored the guns and ammunition were stored in a depot in Concord

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Recent Examples of depot Earlier this year, Santa Monica engaged in a legal battle with Waymo over the company’s noisy, disruptive charging depots. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 The new building will support maintenance and depot operations for both F-35 fighter jets and T-7A trainer aircraft. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026 That campaign has expanded in recent weeks to include warehouses, trains, data centers, medical depots and steel factories and comes on top of an intense assault on Ukraine’s power grid that Russia plans to escalate this winter. — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026 Additionally, container shortages have been reported at inland container depots across northern India. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for depot

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Hundreds of people were gathered inside the warehouse of a steel-fabricating company in north Topeka in a state where Democrats haven't won a Senate race since 1932.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
Flex space can accommodate a mix of office, warehouse or light industrial uses.

— Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 27 Oct. 2026

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Zeughauskeller, set inside a former armory, is another classic spot that serves Swiss staples like rösti.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026
Now, officers can enjoy the convenience of the new headquarters’ training facilities, including an armory and a 50-yard gun range with shooting targets that can move around and enough space to bring in cars to train for different scenarios.

— Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026

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This infrastructure combines an above-ground encapsulation plant with a subterranean repository, known as Onkalo.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Her great-grandnephew, who also chairs her foundation, has sought to realize that temple, which would act as a repository for her art and keep it out of museums, but no such plan to open the structure has materialized yet.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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