Edged rather than washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so freely.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— to place especially for safekeeping or as a pledge
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Macmillan
— 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
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Collins
— A deposit is a sum of money which is part of the full price of something, and which you pay when you agree to buy it.
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Other Word Forms
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deposited
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1 use of ‘deposits’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster