deposit

de|pos|it1 [ dı`pazıt ] noun count **

1. ) a first payment that you make when you agree to buy something expensive such as a car or house. The rest of the money that you pay later is called the balance:

She paid a $100 deposit, and agreed to pay the balance within six months.

put down a deposit (=pay it): We've put down a deposit on a new house.

a ) an amount of money that you pay when you start to rent something such as an apartment or a car, that is returned to you when you stop renting it

b ) an amount of money that you pay into a bank account:

make a deposit: He made a large cash deposit on April 5th.

c ) in the U.K., an amount of money that someone pays to become a CANDIDATE in an election. Candidates who do not get many votes do not get their deposit back after the election.

2. ) a layer of a metal or another substance that has formed in soil or rock:

Rich mineral deposits have been discovered in the area.

a ) a layer of a substance that gradually forms on or inside something:

the build-up of fat deposits in his liver

deposit

de|pos|it 2 [ dı`pazıt ] verb transitive **

1. ) FORMAL to put or leave something somewhere:

They deposited their luggage at the hotel.

2. ) to pay money into a bank account:

Billions of dollars are deposited in banks every day.

a ) to put something valuable in a safe place

3. ) if a substance is deposited in the soil or in rock, it gradually gathers there and forms a layer:

These sediments were deposited by floods thousands of years ago.