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Deposit   /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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... my bank-book; you can look at it," and Joe pointed to a deposit of twenty-five hundred dollars. "I don't think, Oscar, it will pay me to accept your father's offer and ...
— Joe's Luck - Always Wide Awake • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... rude engines of war—a bombshell. The grave tones of the priests murmuring the Libera me, Domine were responded to by the sighs and tears of consecrated virgins, henceforth the guardians of the precious deposit, which, but for inevitable fate, would have been reserved to honour some proud mausoleum. With gloomy forebodings and bitter thoughts de Ramesay and his companions in ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... that when the hair of a child's head was shorn in the third year, the clippings should be buried in a cow-stable, or near an udumbara tree, or in a clump of darbha grass, with the words, "Where Pushan, Brihaspati, Savitri, Soma, Agni dwell, they have in many ways searched where they should deposit it, between heaven and earth, the waters and heaven." See The Grihya-Sutras, translated by H. Oldenberg, Part ii. (Oxford, 1892) p. 218 (Sacred Books of ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... fertility. One interesting feature of this plan to reclaim the desert is found in the character of the water to be utilized. Analysis shows that the water of the Colorado River carries a larger percentage of sedimentary deposit than any other river in the world, not excepting the Nile. The same is true, in a relative degree, of all the other rivers in Arizona. By constant use of these waters the soil not only receives the reviving benefits of irrigation, but at the ...
— Building a State in Apache Land • Charles D. Poston
... from everybody else. The lords of society stole legally or else legalized their stealing, while the poorer classes stole illegally. Nothing was safe unless guarded. Enormous numbers of men were employed as watchmen to protect property. The houses of the well-to-do were a combination of safe deposit vault and fortress. The appropriation of the personal belongings of others by our own children of to-day is looked upon as a rudimentary survival of the theft-characteristic that in ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London


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