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/dəpˈɑzɪt/ /dɪpˈɑzət/ Listen

noun

Deposit n.

1.

That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river). "The deposit already formed affording to the succeeding portion of the charged fluid a basis."

2.

(Mining) A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation.

3.

That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.

4.

(Law)

(a)

A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.

(b)

Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing.

5.

A place of deposit; a depository. (R.)

Bank of deposit. See under Bank.

In deposit, or On deposit, in trust or safe keeping as a deposit; as, coins were received on deposit.

verb

Deposit v. t. (past & past part. deposited; pres. part. depositing)

1.

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. "The fear is deposited in conscience."

2.

To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.

3.

To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.

4.

To lay aside; to rid one's self of. (Obs.) "If what is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which I can not but deem an error." Note: Both this verb and the noun following were formerly written deposite.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deposit" Quotes from Famous Books

... up at a little leather bag which hung from a brass nail on the wall. In flush times they were wont to deposit small sums in this, on which they might fall back in their hours ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... cautiously proceed to work. In less than half an hour it would seem that wool enough has been brought to supply the whole family, real and prospective, with socks, if needles and fingers could be found fine enough to knit it up. In less than a week the female has begun to deposit her eggs,—four of them in as many days,—white tinged with purple, with black spots on the larger end. After two weeks of incubation ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... extended formation might be formed during a period of elevation, and yet not suffer excessively from denudation during its slow upheaval; but the thickness of the formation could not be great, for owing to the elevatory movement it would be less than the depth in which it was formed; nor would the deposit be much consolidated, nor be capped by overlying formations, so that it would run a good chance of being worn away by atmospheric degradation and by the action of the sea during subsequent oscillations of level. It ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... facilitate ascent (i.e. for any party returning to Hut Point with food). We then repacked the sledges and headed across the bay towards the Glacier Tongue, where we arrived after dark about 6 P.M. The young sea-ice was covered in a salt deposit which made it like pulling a sledge over treacle instead of ice, and it was very heavy going after the snow uplands. The Tongue was mostly hard blue ice, which is slipperiness itself, and crevassed every few yards. Most of these were bridged, but you ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... had wandered wild, incoherently ranging and throbbing, but this became the law of his next days as well, since he lacked more than ever all other resort or refuge and had nowhere to carry, to deposit, or contractedly let loose and lock up, as it were, his swollen consciousness, which fairly split in twain the raw shell of his sordid little boarding-place. The arch of the sky and the spread of sea and shore alone gave him space; he could roam with himself ...

— The Finer Grain • Henry James

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