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Deposit

noun

1.

The phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating. Synonyms: alluviation, sedimentation.

2.

Matter that has been deposited by some natural process. Synonym: sediment.

3.

The natural process of laying down a deposit of something. Synonym: deposition.

4.

Money deposited in a bank or some similar institution. Synonym: bank deposit.

5.

A partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later. Synonym: down payment.

6.

Money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use.

7.

A payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met.

8.

A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping. Synonyms: depositary, depository, repository.

9.

The act of putting something somewhere. Synonym: deposition.

verb

(past & past part. deposited; pres. part. depositing)

1.

Put, fix, force, or implant. Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge. "Stick your thumb in the crack"

2.

Put into a bank account. Synonym: bank.

3.

Put (something somewhere) firmly. Synonyms: fix, posit, situate. "Deposit the suitcase on the bench" , "Fix your eyes on this spot"

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"Deposit" Quotes from Famous Books

... painted the tin valleys both sides before the shingles were laid. Then I took the difference in cost between this and a good slate roof and put it in the savings-bank. At the end of twenty years, if my roof lasts as long, my deposit will put on the best kind of a slate roof and leave three hundred dollars to go to the Society for the Promotion of Fine Art in General and Rural Architecture in Particular. I know the shingled roof may burn me up, if the chimney ...

— Homes And How To Make Them • Eugene Gardner

... of the deposit of the statue in this place, is as follows:—It was for the purpose of hiding and protecting it from an enemy who would have destroyed it, had it been discovered. It must have been carefully laid down, and as carefully covered with boughs and twigs of trees which ...

— The American Goliah • Anon.

... formidable denizens of the ocean; in the British waters it attains the length of six or seven feet, and is said to be much larger in the more Northern seas. It usually frequents the deep parts of the sea, but comes among the marine plants of the coast in spring, to deposit its spawn. It swims rather slowly, and glides along with somewhat of the ...

— Captain Mugford - Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors • W.H.G. Kingston

... But first, I want to arrange to bring to Cairo what money I have. I may not want to invest it all here, but it will be handy to have it here. I should like to put it into your bank as a deposit. But I must draw on New York for it, and get you to take my draft. Won't you direct your cashier to telegraph the Fourth National Bank of New York, asking for what amount my drafts on that institution will be honored? ...

— A Captain in the Ranks - A Romance of Affairs • George Cary Eggleston

... make his individuality felt; he was encouraged to suggest and to exercise his intelligence independently. There were actually suggestion boxes in every department where the humblest laborer might deposit a slip of paper telling the boss any notion he had which he deemed of service to the enterprise. More than that—any suggestion accepted was paid ...

— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

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