Depot is from the French dépôt which means a deposit (as in geology or banking) or a storehouse. In English, depot can mean any one of a number of things, with minor variances between the different English speaking countries:

Transport

• Train station
  Train station
  A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
  
  
• Bus station
  Bus station
  A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can stop...
  
  
• Bus garage
  Bus garage
  A bus garage or bus depot is a building where buses are stored and maintained. In many conurbations, bus garages are on the site of former car barns or tram sheds, where Streetcars or Trams were stored, and the operation transferred to buses...
  
  , where buses are stored when not in use
• Motive power depot
  Motive power depot
  Motive power depot, usually abbreviated to MPD, is a name given to places where locomotives are stored when not being used, and also repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine sheds", or, for short, just sheds. Facilities are provided for refuelling and...
  
  , where trains and trams are stored when not in use
• Transport hub for freight
• Oil depot
  Oil depot
  An oil depot is an industrial facility for the storage of oil and/or petrochemical products and from which these products are usually transported to end users or further storage facilities...
  
  
• Propellant depot
  Propellant depot
  An orbital propellant depot is a cache of propellant that is placed on an orbit about the Earth or another body to allow spacecraft to be fuelled in space. Launching a spacecraft separately from some of its propellant enables missions with more massive payloads...
  
  , which supplies fuel to spacecraft
• Castaway depot
  Castaway depot
  A castaway depot is a store or hut placed on an isolated island to provide emergency supplies and relief for castaways and victims of shipwrecks...
  
  , contains stores and survival gear for victims of shipwrecks

Technology

• An application in the Radio Service Software
  Radio Service Software
  Radio Service Software is a software package used to program commercial Motorola two-way radios and cellular telephones. An update of RSS is CPS, a Windows-based version of the package used for some of Motorola's newer radio models.-Licensing:...
  
  
• The format for Hewlett-Packard's Software Distributor
  Software Distributor
  Software Distributor is the Hewlett-Packard company's name for their HP-UX software package management system.SD provides a set of tools for creating packages that will install software on a system running the HP-UX operating system...
  
  

Military

• Regimental depot
  Regimental depot
  The regimental depot of a regiment is the regimental headquarters and normally also the place where recruits are assembled and trained. It is also where soldiers and officers awaiting discharge or postings are based, and where injured soldiers return to full fitness after discharge from hospital...
  
  , the headquarters and training grounds of a regiment
• Main Operating Base
  Main Operating Base
  Main Operating Base is a term used by the United States military defined as "an overseas, permanently manned, well protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access." This term was used to differentiate major strategic overseas military facilities...
  
  , an overseas base for the US military
• Logistics center
  Logistics center
  A logistics center is a facility dedicated to logistical operations. A logistics center might be a warehouse, freight forwarder, or a repair depot....
  
  

Other

• The Home Depot
  The Home Depot
  The Home Depot is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services.The Home Depot operates 2,248 big-box format stores across the United States , Canada , Mexico and China, with a 12-store chain...
  
  , a store
• Depot, Poland
  Depot, Poland
  Depot is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zbąszynek, within Świebodzin County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Zbąszynek, east of Świebodzin, north-east of Zielona Góra, and south-east of Gorzów Wielkopolski.The village has a...
  
  , a village
• Injection (medicine)#Depot injection
• RCMP Academy, Depot Division
  RCMP Academy, Depot Division
  RCMP Academy, Depot Division has been providing police training to Royal Canadian Mounted Police "cadets" since its establishment in 1885. The facility is located in the west part of Regina, Saskatchewan, near the airport, and consists of several buildings.In the RCMP's early days, Depot had a...
  
  , in Saskatchewan, Canada
• Maxwell Street Depot
  Maxwell Street Depot
  The Maxwell Street Depot, commonly called "Depot" or "Ghetto Dog" by its regular customers, is a 24-hour fast-food restaurant with locations throughout the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, although the best known branch is found on 31st Street and Canal Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood.It is a...
  
   in Chicago, United States
• "Depot" is a term used for providing details on the account held by one bank with another where it does not exist.

See also

• Depot Historic District (disambiguation)

Depot Rail vehicles maintenance space where mainly all operations are held.