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deps

deps is the plural of dep.

Meaning of dep

Noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

  1. (informal) A deposition.
    • Don't worry too much if they don’t give us everything we need in their rog answers; we'll fill the gaps in dep.
  2. (informal) A deputy.
    • [A]s soon as the door opened we could see it was the deputy governor coming through. […] We watched as the dep crossed the football field towards us.1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz
  3. (Canada, Quebec, informal) A dépanneur.
  4. (informal) A dependency.

See all 7 meanings of dep

Noun capitalized: DEPs

DEPs

  1. (plural) plural of DEP

Questions about deps

What is deps the plural of?
Deps is the plural of dep.
What part of speech is deps?
Deps is a noun.

Words near deps in the dictionary

  1. deproving
  2. deprovision
  3. deprovisioned
  4. deprovisioning
  5. deprovisions
  6. deps
  7. deps-
  8. deps.
  9. Depsang Plains
  10. depseudonymization
  11. depseudonymize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deps (page history and authors); DEPs (page history and authors); dep (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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