Depot (/ˈdɛpoʊ/ DEP-oh or /ˈdiːpoʊ/ DEE-poh) is from the French dépôt, which means a deposit (as in banking or geology) or a storehouse. With minor variations among the English-speaking countries, depot - in English - may refer to:
Places
- Depot, Poland, a village
Brands and enterprises
- Maxwell Street Depot, a restaurant in Chicago, United States
- The Home Depot, an American home improvement retail chain
Transport
- Depot, used as a part of bus station's name, e.g.:
- Depot, used as a part of a railway station's name, because the same place was previously or still is being used as a train shelter and naturally became a railway station as well, e.g.:
- Depot, a transport hub for freight
- Bus depot, a bus garage where buses are sheltered when not in use
- Castaway depot, contains stores and survival gear for victims of shipwrecks
- Motive power depot, where trains and trams are sheltered and eventually maintained when not in use
- Propellant depot, which supplies fuel to spacecraft
- Train depot, where mainly locomotives are sheltered and repaired
Brands and enterprises
- Maxwell Street Depot, a restaurant in Chicago, United States
- The Home Depot, an American home improvement retail chain
Computing and technology
- Depot, an application in the Radio Service Software
- Depot, the format for Hewlett-Packard's Software Distributor
Military
- Depot, or logistics center
- Depot, or Main Operating Base, an overseas base for the US military
- Regimental depot, the headquarters and training grounds of a regiment
- Supply depot
Other uses
- Depot injection, in pharma, a long-term drug delivery by an injection formation (typically 2 weeks - 6 months)
- RCMP Academy, Depot Division, in Saskatchewan, Canada