<B>deposit, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put down; lay down; leave lying. <BR> <I>Ex. He deposited his bundles on the table.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to leave lying as sediment. <BR> <I>Ex. The flood deposited a layer of mud in the streets.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to put in a place to be kept safe. <BR> <I>Ex. Deposit your money in the bank.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to pay as a pledge for carrying out a promise to do something or to pay more later. <BR> <I>Ex. If you will deposit $5, the store will reserve the coat for you until you pay the rest.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S.) to leave (a certain amount of farm land) uncultivated under the provisions of a farm parity program. <BR> <I>Ex. They generally deposited their scrubby highland acres and planted their more fertile bottom-land acreage (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to settle or be precipitated. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make or pay a deposit. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>something laid down or left lying by natural means. <BR> <I>Ex. There is often a deposit of sand and mud at the mouth of a river.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something put in a certain place to be kept safe. <BR> <I>Ex. Money put in a bank is a deposit.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>money paid as a pledge to do something or to pay more later. <BR> <I>Ex. He put down a $50 deposit on the coat, planning to pay the balance of $100 by Christmas.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a mass of some mineral in rock or in the ground. <BR> <I>Ex. deposits of coal.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a depositing. <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=depository.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>on deposit,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>in a bank. </I> <I>Ex. to have $100 on deposit in a savings account.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>in a place for safe-keeping. <BR> <I>Ex. jewelry on deposit in a safe.</I> </DL>
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<B>depositary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-taries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person or company that receives something for safekeeping; trustee. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=depository </B>(def. 1). <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with deposits. <BR> <I>Ex. a depositary bank.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>serving as a deposit or depository. <BR> <I>Ex. a depositary library.</I> </DL>
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<B>deposition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of putting out of office or a position of authority; removal from power. <DD><B> 2a. </B>the giving of testimony under oath. <DD><B> b. </B>the testimony so given, especially a sworn statement in writing. <BR> <I>Ex. The prisoner made a deposition to use in appealing his case. A deposition made before the witness left town was used as evidence in the trial.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act or process of depositing. <BR> <I>Ex. the deposition of silt from the floodwaters, the deposition of funds in a bank.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a thing deposited; deposit. </DL>
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<B>depositional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a deposition. <BR> <I>Ex. ... depositional areas such as flood plains, old sea floor, or lake beds (White and Renner).</I> </DL>
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<B>Deposition from the Cross,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the taking down of Christ's body from the cross. <DD><B> 2. </B>the representation of this in a work of art. </DL>
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<B>depositor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who deposits. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who deposits money in a bank. <BR> <I>Ex. Depositors in savings banks may receive interest on the money deposited.</I> </DL>
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<B>depository, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a place where anything is stored for safekeeping; storehouse. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=depositary </B>(def. 1). </DL>
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<B>deposit slip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a printed slip on which a bank depositor lists the amount of checks, bills, or coins to be credited to his account. </DL>
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<B>depot, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a railroad or bus station. <DD><B> 2. </B>a storehouse; warehouse. <BR> <I>Ex. It predicts in advance what the depots will need and has parts shipped before they are requisitioned (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a place where military supplies are stored. <DD><B> 4. </B>a place where recruits are brought together and trained. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to place in a depot. <BR> <I>Ex. When near the summit, CaptainScott told ... the party to depot their surplus and return (H. G. Ponting).</I> </DL>
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<B>depravation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the action of depraving or fact of being depraved; deterioration; corruption. <BR> <I>Ex. It is to these ... [circumstances] that the depravation of ancient polite learning is principally to be ascribed (Oliver Goldsmith).</I> </DL>
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<B>deprave, </B>transitive verb, <B>-praved,</B> <B>-praving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make bad; injure morally; corrupt; pervert. <BR> <I>Ex. Drinking too much alcoholic liquor often depraves a person's character.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to defame. noun <B>depraver.</B> </DL>
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<B>depraved, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having very bad morals; corrupt; perverted. <BR> <I>Ex. A murderer is so depraved that he has no regard for human life.</I> (SYN) vicious. </DL>
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<B>depravedly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a depraved manner; corruptly; perversely. </DL>
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<B>depravedness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> depraved quality or condition; depravity. </DL>
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<B>depravement, </B>noun. <B>=depravity.</B></DL>
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<B>depravity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality or condition of being depraved; wickedness; viciousness; corruption. <BR> <I>Ex. a monster of depravity (T. S. Eliot).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a corrupt act; bad practice. </DL>
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<B>deprecate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to express strong disapproval of; plead against; protest against. <BR> <I>Ex. Lovers of peace deprecate war.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to belittle; disparage. <BR> <I>Ex. It must take an unusual amount of moxie to deprecate Richard Rodgers' music (Dorothy Kilgallen). Without deprecating the value of what currently is being done on the air, it would seem sensible to explore further [what] the best means (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) to seek to avert by prayer. </DL>
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<B>deprecatingly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a manner that expresses deprecation; deprecatorily. </DL>
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<B>deprecation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a strong expression of disapproval; pleading or protesting against something. <BR> <I>Ex. a look of deprecation (George Eliot).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>belittling; disparagement. <BR> <I>Ex. Granted all the evils of colonialism, there has been too much deprecation of the European contribution to Asia (Sydney Hook).</I> </DL>
<B>depreciable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be depreciated. </DL>
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<B>depreciate, </B>verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to lessen the value or price of. <BR> <I>Ex. The government has the power to depreciate currency.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to speak slightingly of; belittle. <BR> <I>Ex. That lazy boy is always depreciating the value of exercise.</I> (SYN) underrate, disparage. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to lessen in value. <BR> <I>Ex. The longer an automobile is driven the more it depreciates.</I> adv. <B>depreciatingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>depreciation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a lessening or lowering in price, value, or estimation. <BR> <I>Ex. The depreciation of a car is greatest during its first year.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>such a loss figured as part of the cost of doing business. <BR> <I>Ex. Depreciation, of course, is a bookkeeping charge which reduces reported earnings but does not involve the expenditure of cash (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a reduction in the value of money. <BR> <I>Ex. Foreign currency depreciation is a result of economic depression in the country concerned.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a speaking slightingly (of); belittling; disparagement. </DL>
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<B>depreciation reserve,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Accounting.) a reserve account to offset the cost of equipment that is depreciating and will ultimately have to be replaced or renewed. </DL>
<B>depreciator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that depreciates. <BR> <I>Ex. Counterfeiters and inflation are depreciators of money.</I> </DL>
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<B>depreciatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to depreciate, disparage, or undervalue. </DL>
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<B>depredate, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-dated,</B> <B>-dating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to ravage; plunder. <BR> <I>Ex. ... those hasty improvements of the past century which had been allowed to depredate the city (Columbia University Forum).</I> </DL>
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<B>depredation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of plundering; robbery; a ravaging. <BR> <I>Ex. Intertribal depredations were frequent among savages. Today deer, protected and multiplying, are committing serious depredations on farmlands and gardens (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>depredator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that depredates. </DL>
