a distribution depot for auto parts
the guns and ammunition were stored in a depot in Concord
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These targets include airfields, military plants, ammunition depots and warehouses, and oil hubs and refineries.—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025 Ukraine attacked the same region last week and claimed to have struck an oil depot serving an airbase for Russian nuclear bomber planes, causing a huge fire that took five days to put out.—Reuters, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025 This could result in as many as 3,000 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of imports idling at Chattogram Port’s inland container depot by the end of April.—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 Jan. 2025 Following a final ride through his hometown, past the old train depot that served as his 1976 presidential campaign headquarters, he will be buried on family land in a plot next to Rosalynn, to whom Carter was married for more than 77 years.—Bill Barrow and Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for depot
Word History
Etymology
French dépôt, from Middle French depost, from Medieval Latin depositum, from Latin, neuter of depositus
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