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# depot

«depot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large building or yard where goods, vehicles or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a depot, depots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A depot is a large building or yard where goods, vehicles or supplies are kept until they are needed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#m1)

2) A depot is a place where buses, trains or trams are parked, cleaned and repaired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#m2)

3) (US) A depot is a small railway or bus station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a depot is where the buses sleep at night, where parcels wait before delivery, or where the council keeps salt and grit for icy roads. In stories a depot is often a busy or spooky place full of lorries or trains. In maths problems a depot is often the starting point: «trucks leave the depot», «the depot holds 500 boxes». Phrases: bus depot, fuel depot, supply depot, delivery depot, return to the depot.

### examples

- The buses go back to the depot at midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#x1)
- Our parcel is waiting at the delivery depot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#x2)
- The army kept food and blankets in a supply depot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#x3)
- Grandpa met Grandma at the old train depot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#x4)
- A lorry leaves the depot with 240 boxes and drops 30 at each shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#x5)
- The council's depot is full of grit for the winter roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#x6)
- The firefighters drove the engine back to the depot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#x7)
- We waited at the bus depot for the last bus home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/#x8)

### note

Countable noun: a depot, two depots. Say it DEP-oh in the UK and DEE-poh in the USA; the final t is silent. Do not mix it up with «deposit» (money put down). In a maths problem «the depot» is usually where things start or end, so count what leaves and what comes back.

### In the corpora

- [Electric buses charge at the depot overnight or quickly at some stops; London was reported to have more than a thousand of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «depot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.