depot

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A railroad or bus station.
• noun A warehouse or storehouse.
• noun A storage installation for military equipment and supplies.
• noun A station for assembling military recruits and forwarding them to active units.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Milit.: A place where military prisoners are confined.
• noun A place of deposit; a depository; a warehouse or storehouse for receiving goods for storage, sale, or transfer, as on a railroad or other line of transportation.
• noun Specifically A railroad-station; a building for the accommodation and shelter of passengers and the receipt and transfer of freight by railroad.
• noun Milit.: A military magazine, as a fort, where stores, ammunition, etc., are deposited; or a station where recruits for different regiments are received and drilled, and where soldiers who cannot accompany their regiments remain.
• noun The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and whence they are distributed.
• noun In Great Britain, that portion of a battalion, generally consisting of two companies, which remains at home when the rest are ordered on foreign service.
• noun In fortification, a particular place at the tail of the trenches, out of the reach of the cannon of the place, where the troops generally assemble who are ordered to attack the outworks.
• noun Sometimes written with the French accents, dépôt or depôt.
• noun Synonyms Depot, Station, Freight-house. In the United States, at first the places for landing railroad-passengers and -freight were called depots, passenger-depots, freight-depots; but the use of station for the landing-place of passengers is gradually increasing, while freight-house is the most common word for a separate storage-place.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.
• noun A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.
• noun (Eng. & France) The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.
• noun United States A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun a warehouse or similar storage facility
• noun US a bus or railway station
• noun a place where military recruits are assembled before being sent to active units

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a depository for goods
• noun station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods