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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 Instead, three sections of the Berlin Wall just sit there, where they were installed in 2008, outside a pottery studio in a former railroad freight depot. — Will McGough, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 And their shock turned to anger when the United States bombed Iranian water storage facilities and Israel struck Iranian oil depots. — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 Criminals have studied the lengthy and predictable stop times as the trains approach depots, a prime time to strike. — Kiel Porter, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026 And several days later, on June 22, the work order was closed by a high-level manager, removing the bus from the depot’s list of to-do repairs. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for depot

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Mayor Karen Bass questions the progress and said that city personnel were inside the warehouse earlier today and that food waste remains.

— Julie Sharp, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
The state’s largest electric utility is planning to add an unprecedented amount of new electricity capacity by 2030 to meet the power needs of the massive warehouses filled with computer servers.

— Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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Among his many murals are the Jackson 5 mural on Broadway in Gary and a Michigan City mural near the armory.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
The guard member from West Virginia said that normally, on domestic deployments, he was used to sleeping on the floor of an armory, maybe without electricity, and eating ready-to-eat military meals.

— Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 24 Aug. 2026

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The team's research has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and is available on the paper repository site arXiv.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
The platform CentraLife calls a centralized repository runs leads, calls, policy management, reporting, and compensation across CentraLife’s advisor network as one system.

— Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026

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