dep
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of department, originally slang from Imperial College, first attested c. 1930.[1]
Etymology 2
- Abbreviation of several English terms that begin with "dep"
- Clipping of several English terms that begin with "dep"
Noun
dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)
- Short for deposit.
- Short for departure.
- (law, 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.
- (informal) A deputy.
- 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:
- [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.
- (Canada, Quebec, informal) A dépanneur.
- (computing, informal) A dependency.
See also
Verb
dep (third-person singular simple present deps, present participle depping, simple past and past participle depped)
- (informal) To deputize.
- 2004, John Chilton, Who's Who of British Jazz: 2nd Edition, page 212:
- Regularly with Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band for almost a year in the late 1990s and later deputized in the band, including a tour of Denmark (2003), also depped in Chris Barber's Band for Swedish tour (2001).
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdɛp]
- Hyphenation: dèp
Further reading
- “dep” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
References
Romanian
Etymology
Unknown.
Declension
References
- dep in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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