Definitions for deposit

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deposit de·pos·it

Spelling: [dih-poz-it]

IPA: /dɪˈpɒz ɪt/

Deposit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in deposit (deiopst).

Definitions for deposit

noun

1. money placed in a bank account or an instance of placing money in a bank account.
2. anything given as security or in part payment:
3. anything laid away or entrusted to another for safekeeping:
4. a place for safekeeping; depository.
5. something precipitated, delivered and left, or thrown down, as by a natural process:
6. the natural sediment of wine in a bottle.
7. a coating of metal deposited on something, usually by an electric current.
8. a natural accumulation or occurrence, especially of oil or ore:

verb (used with object)

1. to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account:
2. to give as security or in part payment.
3. to deliver and leave (an item):
4. to insert (a coin) in a coin-operated device:
5. to put, place, or set down, especially carefully or exactly:
6. to lay or throw down by a natural process; precipitate:

verb (used without object)

1. to be placed, inserted, precipitated, left for safekeeping, given as security or in partial payment, etc.

Origin of deposit

1615-25; Latin dēpositus laid down, past participle of dēpōnere; see depone

Examples for deposit

Will you take care of some money for me until I get a chance to deposit it in the savings bank?

He would drive into Fallon at once to see the carpenter and deposit the check.

According to Afghan government regulations, no one has the right to deposit public money into a personal account.

I will go down and deposit this; for Betty has seen I have been writing.

You see, you had placed no deposit with me, and I had to look after my own interests.

In short, they threw away the EU pledge of deposit insurance, which is the last defense against nationwide bank runs.

Her happiness or misery were in my hands, and who could trifle with such a deposit?

Eurozone leaders are ignoring these basic tenets of deposit insurance.

Or, “Only to the end of this month: deposit a separatist and get up to 12 percent interest.”

We will not sit on the sidelines and deposit our fate in the hands of others.