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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deposit/dɪˈpɒzɪt/

▶noun

1 a sum of money placed in a bank or other account.

2 a sum payable as a first instalment or as a pledge.
■ a returnable sum paid to cover possible loss or damage.

3 a layer or body of accumulated matter.

4 the action of depositing something.

▶verb (deposits, depositing, deposited)

1 put or set down in a specific place.
■ lay down naturally as a layer or covering.

2 store or entrust with someone for safe keeping.
■ pay as a deposit.

– phrases
lose one's deposit (of a candidate in a UK parliamentary election) receive less than a certain proportion of the votes (thereby forfeiting a statutory financial deposit).

– derivatives
depositor noun.

– origin C16: from L. depositum (n.), med. L. depositare (v.), both from L. deposit-, deponere ‘lay aside’.

'deposit' also found in these Oxford entries:

allochthonous - alluvium - apothem - autochthonous - bank - bin - bloom - caliche - country rock - crust - deposit account - deposition - depot - diatomaceous earth - dump - embolus - evaporite - fan - flysch - frost - fur - garner - gossan - head - hypothecate - lay - layaway - lay-by - leave - loess - margin - margin call - multilayer - oil sand - overburden - pan - park - pawn - peat - petrify - pigeonhole - placer - plaque - pollinate - put - residual - rim - safe deposit - safety deposit

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