depot
noun
[ ˈdɛpəʊ ]
• a place for the storage of large quantities of equipment, food, or goods.
• "an arms depot"
Similar:
storehouse,
warehouse,
store,
storage place,
storing place,
repository,
depository,
cache,
arsenal,
magazine,
armoury,
ammunition dump,
ordnance depot,
garner,
• a place where buses, trains, or other vehicles are housed and maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
• a place where recruits are trained or other troops are assembled.
• "only conscripts who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it"
Origin:
late 18th century (in the sense ‘act of depositing’): from French dépôt, from Latin depositum ‘something deposited’ (see deposit).
