Depot

Depot (from French le dépôt m. 'warehouse', 'deposit') stands for

  • Securities account, a custody facility for securities with a financial services provider for a fee
  • Depot (museum), a storage facility in museums where inventory items that are not currently on display are kept.
  • Depot fat as a term for stored neutral fat in the fatty tissue of the body, especially in the subcutis and the abdominal cavity.
  • Depot (transport), the shelter for vehicles of railways and transport companies (for trams, buses and railways)
  • a common name in Austria and Switzerland for the fire station
  • Depot (military), a military property for the storage of fuel, ammunition, or equipment.
  • an old military term for a substitute troop, see substitutes
  • the storage and safekeeping facility for any objects, see storage facility
  • the Swiss term for deposit, see deposit system
  • Bottle deposit, the Swiss term for bottle deposit
  • Depot (wine), the term for deposits in wine
  • acketeering
  • a drug which - administered once - is active over a prolonged release and thus action period, see depot drug formulation
  • a chain of stores of Gries Deco Holding for gift and decoration articles in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • Term for a transshipment warehouse in the transport chain in goods transport, mainly used in the CEP sector.
  • Depot, a former German retail chain in the co op AG

Depot is a name component of the following geographical objects:

  • Depot Crag
  • Depot Lake
  • Depot Glacier, Grahamland Glacier, Antarctica
  • Depot Island (also Île du Dépôt), various islands
  • Depot Nunatak, Nunatak in Victoria Land, Antarctica
  • Depot Peak, Nunatak in Mac Robertson Land, Antarctica

properties listed on the NRHP:

  • Depot (Magnolia), in Magnolia, Mississippi, ID No. 84000045
  • Depot Business Buildings, in Columbus, Georgia, ID No. 80001163
  • Depot Covered Bridge, in Pittsford, Vermont, ID# 74000253
  • Depot Hill Historic District, in Stoughton, Wisconsin, ID# 98000222.
  • Depot Street Bridge, in Beacon Falls, Connecticut, ID No. 07000108
  • Depot-Compress Historic District, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, ID# 83000959

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