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depo

depo is the clipping of deposition.

Meaning of deposition

Noun

deposition (countable and uncountable, plural depositions)

  1. The removal of someone from office.
    • So, Andover featured in the Glorious Revolution, which involved the deposition of Catholic fraterniser James II and his replacement by stout Protestants William and Mary.2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 58
  2. The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
  3. The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
  4. The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
  5. The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
  6. The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
    Synonyms:
    desublimation

See all 8 meanings of deposition

Noun capitalized: Depo

Depo (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Depo-Provera (trademarked name for medroxyprogesterone acetate).
    • Researchers find that the women who lived in places affected by the Planned Parenthood cuts had 27 percent more births than the women using Depo in the year prior.2016 February 3, Sarah Kliff, “When Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, women got less birth control and had more babies”, in Vox, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023

Forms of depo

pluraldepos

Origin of depo

Shortening.

Questions about depo

What does depo mean?
Depo means depo-Provera (trademarked name for medroxyprogesterone acetate).
What is depo the clipping of?
Depo is the clipping of deposition.
What part of speech is depo?
Depo is a noun.
What is the plural of depo?
The plural of depo is depos.

Words near depo in the dictionary

  1. deplumations
  2. deplume
  3. deplumed
  4. deplumes
  5. depluming
  6. depo
  7. depoaxes
  8. depoaxis
  9. depobelt
  10. depocenter
  11. depocenters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depo (page history and authors); Depo (page history and authors); deposition (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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