Definition of: deposit

(di·poz′it) v.t.
1. To give in trust or for safekeeping.
2. To give as part payment or as security.
3. To put or lay on or in some place or receptacle.
4. To cause, as sediment, to form a layer or deposit.
—noun
1. That which is or has been deposited or precipitated; especially, sediment; precipitate.
2. Money or property deposited, as in a bank for safekeeping, or as security.
3. The act of depositing, or the state of being deposited.
4. A place where anything is deposited.
5. The condition of being placed to one's order, as in a bank, in trust, or for safekeeping: on deposit.
6. Geol. An accumulated mass of iron, oil, salt, etc.
7. A layer of metal deposited by electrolytic action. [<L depositus, pp. of deponere. See DEPONE.]