deposit

deposit is a 7-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.
2. noun. To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.
3. noun. To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.
4. noun. To lay aside; to rid one's self of.
5. transitive verb. That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river).
6. transitive verb. A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation.
7. transitive verb. That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.
8. transitive verb. A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.
9. transitive verb. Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing.
10. transitive verb. A place of deposit; a depository.
11. noun. the act of putting something somewhere

    Synonyms: deposition

12. noun. a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping

    Synonyms: depositary, depository, repository

13. noun. a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met
14. noun. matter that has been deposited by some natural process

    Synonyms: sediment

15. noun. the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating

    Synonyms: alluviation, sedimentation

16. noun. money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use

    "his deposit was refunded when he returned the car"

17. noun. a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
18. noun. money deposited in a bank or some similar institution
19. noun. the natural process of laying down a deposit of something

    Synonyms: deposition

20. verb. put, fix, force, or implant

    "lodge a bullet in the table"

    "stick your thumb in the crack"

    Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge

21. verb. put (something somewhere) firmly

    "She posited her hand on his shoulder"

    "deposit the suitcase on the bench"

    Synonyms: fix, posit, situate

22. verb. put into a bank account

    "She deposits her paycheck every month"

    Synonyms: bank

Synonyms

deposition, depositary, depository, repository, sediment, alluviation, sedimentation, lodge, stick, wedge, fix, posit, situate, bank

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in deposit:

dopiest, podites, posited, sopited, topside

Common word forms

deposits, deposited, depositing

Words from these letters

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