# deposit
## English
### Alternative forms

* deposite (17th-19th centuries)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin depositus, past participle of depono (“put down”). Doublet of depot.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪˈpɒzɪt/
* (General American) IPA: /dɪˈpɑzɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒzɪt

### Noun

deposit (plural deposits)
* (geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
* (law) Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.
* (banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
* Anything left behind on a surface.
    a mineral deposit
    a deposit of seaweed on the shore
    a deposit of jam on my countertop
* (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
    Synonyms: earnest money, down payment
    They put down a deposit on the apartment.
* A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
* A place of deposit; a depository.

#### Derived terms

* bank deposit
* biodeposit
* bottle deposit
* brickdust deposit
* can deposit
* certificate of deposit
* container-deposit
* container deposit
* credit-deposit ratio
* demand deposit
* deposit account
* deposit contract
* deposit insurance
* deposit interest retention tax
* deposit money
* deposit protection
* deposit slip
* direct deposit
* immunodeposit
* microdeposit
* nanodeposit
* rhizodeposit
* safe-deposit
* safe deposit box
* safe-deposit box
* safety deposit
* safety-deposit box
* security deposit
* statutory deposit
* subdeposit
* term deposit
* time deposit
* time deposit account

#### Related terms

* depose
* depositary
* depository
* repository
* suppository

#### Translations

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#### See also

* refundable

### Verb

deposit (third-person singular simple present deposits, present participle depositing, simple past and past participle deposited)
* (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
    A crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand.
    The waters deposited a rich alluvium.
** 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:This fear is deposited in conscience.
* To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
    Synonym: reposit
    to deposit goods in a warehouse
* To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
* (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
    I had to deposit two months' rent into my landlord's account before he gave me the keys.
* To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
** 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Schism: or a Defence of the Church of England:reform and deposit his error

#### Antonyms

* withdraw

#### Derived terms

* biodeposit
* codeposit
* depositee
* depositor
* electrodeposit
* electrodeposited
* misdeposited
* predeposit
* predeposited
* redeposit
* rhizodeposited
* undeposited

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* dopiest, podites, posited, side pot, sopited, toe-dips, topside