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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
More Ukrainian drone and missile strikes are targeting drone factories, munitions warehouses and aviation fuel depots on Russian soil.
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David Axe, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
At first, this included occasional attacks, such as the blowing up, by agents of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, of ammunition depots in the Czech Republic that had been supplying Ukrainian forces then fighting Russia in the Donbas.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025
One drone struck an oil depot in Cheboksary, a Russian city on the Volga River about 620 miles from the border, the local governor reported.
—Joanna Kozlowska, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
Even that deal was apparently too much for the combatants to follow through on — Ukraine and Russia continue to hit each other’s power stations and oil depots.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
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David Axe, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
At first, this included occasional attacks, such as the blowing up, by agents of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, of ammunition depots in the Czech Republic that had been supplying Ukrainian forces then fighting Russia in the Donbas.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025
One drone struck an oil depot in Cheboksary, a Russian city on the Volga River about 620 miles from the border, the local governor reported.
—Joanna Kozlowska, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
Even that deal was apparently too much for the combatants to follow through on — Ukraine and Russia continue to hit each other’s power stations and oil depots.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depot
Noun
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My tobacco rope was probably cut from a much bigger section and smuggled out of a warehouse.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Apr. 2025
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In 2017, for example, the Swedish furniture giant IKEA rented out an entire warehouse in the area for all of design week.—
Laura May Todd,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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But for years, being a wrestler in Richmond meant going out of town to do small shows held in high school gyms or an armory.—
Karri Peifer,
Axios,
2 Apr. 2025
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The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2025
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The Common Vulnerability and Exposures, or CVE, repository holds the answers to some of information security's most vital questions.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 Apr. 2025
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As interest in both the modern graffiti movement and its diasporic reverberations has grown, Wong’s conviction has proved consequential, his collection functioning as a repository.—
Max Lakin,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depot. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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