deposit

Definition

  • verb: to put (money) in a bank account
  • verb: to place especially for safekeeping or as a pledge

Examples

  • If you return that empty soda can, you'll get back the five-cent 'deposit' you paid when you bought the soda.

  • He carefully 'deposited' [=(more commonly) 'put, placed'] the tools in the trunk of his car.

  • Our records show that she 'made' a large 'deposit' to her account earlier in the month.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I need two minutes of your time. -Anything for the NGC. -Thanks. Will you accompany me to pit five, please? -You make the deposit when? -At your signal . What do we look like, a couple of peckerwood jackasses? How does that feel? You all right? (..)
    2001 Ocean's Eleven