Depot ( or ) may refer to:

Places

Depot, Poland Depot is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zbąszynek, within Świebodzin County, Lubusz Voivodeship Lubusz Voivodeship, or Lubuskie Province ( pl, województwo lubuskie ), is a voivodeship ( province) in western Poland. It ...

, a village * Depot Island, Kemp Land, Antarctica * Depot Island, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Depot Island Formation, Greenland

Brands and enterprises

Maxwell Street Depot The Maxwell Street Depot is a 24-hour fast-food restaurant in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 31st Street and Canal Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood. The Maxwell Street Depot is one of a number of Chicago food stands t ...

, a restaurant in Chicago, United States * Office Depot, an American office supply chain *

The Home Depot The Home Depot, Inc., is an American multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals. Home Depot is the largest home improvement re ...

, an American home improvement retail chain

Computing and technology

* Depot, an application in the Radio Service Software * Depot, the format for Hewlett-Packard's

Software Distributor Software Distributor (SD) is the Hewlett-Packard company's name for their HP-UX software package management system. SD provides a set of tools for creating packages that will install software on a system running the HP-UX operating system. The pac ...

Military

* Depot, or

logistics center A logistics center, or depot, is a facility dedicated to logistical operations. A logistics center might be a warehouse, freight forwarder, or a repair depot. The United States Air Force (USAF) is serviced by three air logistics centers (also known ...

* Depot, or

Main Operating Base Main operating base (MOB) is a term used by the United States military defined as a "permanently manned, well protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access". This term was used to differentiate ...

, an overseas base for the US military *

Regimental depot The regimental depot of a regiment is its home base for recruiting and training. It is also where soldiers and officers awaiting discharge or postings are based and where injured soldiers return to full fitness after discharge from hospital b ...

, the headquarters and training grounds of a regiment * Supply depot

Transport

* Depot, a

transport hub A transport hub is a place where passengers and cargo are exchanged between vehicles and/or between transport modes. Public transport hubs include railway stations, rapid transit stations, bus stops, tram stops, airports and ferry slips. F ...

for freight * Train depot or

train shed A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. It is also known as an overall roof. Its primary purpose is to store and protect from the elements train car ...

, a place where train engines and cars are sheltered and maintained when not it use * Bus depot or

bus garage A bus garage, also known as a bus depot, bus base or bus barn, is a facility where buses are stored and maintained. In many conurbations, bus garages are on the site of former car barns or tram sheds, where trams (streetcars) were stored, and ...

, a place where buses are sheltered and maintained when not in use **

Bus station A bus station or a bus interchange is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. While the term bus depot can also be used to refer to a bus station, it generally refers to a bus garage. A bus station is l ...

, whose name can include the word ''depot,'' because a bus depot or garage can be, or previously was, a bus stop or terminal *

Castaway depot A castaway depot is a store or hut placed on an isolated island to provide emergency supplies and relief for castaways and victims of shipwrecks. A string of depots were built by the New Zealand government on their subantarctic islands in the ...

, contains stores and survival gear for victims of shipwrecks *

Motive power depot The motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is the place where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained when not being used. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine shed ...

, where trains, locomotives, or trams are sheltered and maintained when not in use **

Train station A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing suc ...

, whose name can include the word ''depot'', because the same place was previously, or still is, being used as a train shelter, and naturally became a railway station as well *

Propellant depot An orbital propellant depot is a cache of propellant that is placed in orbit around Earth or another body to allow spacecraft or the transfer stage of the spacecraft to be fueled in space. It is one of the types of space resource depots that ha ...

, which supplies fuel to spacecraft

Other uses

Depot injection A depot injection is a term for an injection formulation of a medication which releases slowly over time to permit less frequent administration of a medication. They are designed to increase medication adherence and consistency, especially in pa ...

, in pharma, a long-term drug delivery by an injection formation (typically 2 weeks - 6 months) *

RCMP Academy, Depot Division RCMP Academy, Depot Division (commonly known as "Depot", not ) is the police training academy for Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) "cadets." Providing training since its establishment in 1885, the facility is located in the west part of Reg ...