depot

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a building where supplies or vehicles, especially buses, are kept:

an arms/weapons depot

a fuel/storage depot

a bus depot

a bus station or train station

a building where supplies or vehicles are kept:

a fuel depot

A depot is also a building that buses and trains leave from.

a place where goods are kept until they are sent somewhere to be used, sold, etc.:

He took a job in the supply depot of a San Francisco shipyard.

a fuel/food/oil depot

a place where buses or trains are kept until they are needed or in order to be repaired:

The closure of the Eastleigh depot means that train renovation is now concentrated on two sites.

a small bus station or train station:

He runs a shoe shine business from the local bus depot.