Deposit

Quick meaning: Deposit is a noun meaning (banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.

Meaning

(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.

More Meanings

1. Anything left behind on a surface.
2. (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
3. A place of deposit; a depository.
4. (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
5. (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.
6. (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.
7. 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

Example Sentences

a mineral deposit

a deposit of seaweed on the shore

a deposit of jam on my countertop

The waters deposited a rich alluvium.

Word Forms

• deposits
• deposite
• depositing
• deposited

Synonyms for deposit

Depending on context, synonyms include reposit, repository, pose, posit, bank, stick.

Antonyms for deposit

Common opposites include withdraw, free, draw, dislodge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sediment, alluviation, sedimentation, wedge, stick, lodge.

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