a place where large amounts of food, goods or equipment are stored （大量物品的）贮藏处，仓库 an explosion at an arms depot 发生在军火库的爆炸 The company also has access to a large storage depot on the outskirts of the city. 该公司还可以进入市郊的一个大型仓库。
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a place where buses or other vehicles are kept and repaired 车库；修车厂 on its way back to the bus depot 回公共汽车站的途中
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a small station where trains or buses stop 火车小站；公共汽车小站 The bus depot is on Lincoln Avenue. 公共汽车站在林肯大街上。 The museum is in the old railroad depot building. 博物馆在旧的铁路车辆段大楼里。
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Word Originlate 18th cent. (in the sense ‘act of depositing’): from French dépôt, from Latin depositum ‘something deposited’from Latin deposit- ‘laid aside’, from the verb deponere.