deposit
IPA: dʌpˈɑzɪt
noun
- (geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another.
- (banking) Money placed in an account.
- Anything left behind on a surface.
- (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
- A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
- A place of deposit; a depository.
verb
- (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
- To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
- To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
- (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
- To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
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Examples of "deposit" in Sentences
- The cocoon is deposited in the soil.
- The frass is deposited in sinuous curves.
- The opposite of sublimation is deposition.
- Anthracite coal deposits are in the region.
- Parliament dissolved by the deposition of the monarch.
- Corrosion deposits are created by the corrosion of the substrate.
- It was deposited in the office of the secretary of the viceroyalty.
- That was considered to be the equilibrium temperature of the deposit.
- The strata were deposited in a fluvial and deltaic depositional system.
- Nearby the Tony M deposit, Denison has another uranium deposit, the Bullfrog.
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