(US, military) A unit containing reserves or replacements for large front-line formations such as field armies.
(US, military) A unit containing reserves or replacements for large front-line formations such as field armies.
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(military slang) A replacement depot.
World War II US military slang for a replacement depot — the staging areas where soldiers waited to be reassigned to units after recovering from wounds, completing training, or arriving in-theater. The rhyming nickname ('repo-depot') made the often frustrating, bureaucratic experience of waiting at these centers slightly more bearable through humor. Soldiers stuck at a repo depot were in limbo, processed and reassigned in often impersonal conditions. The rhyme gave something grim a darkly comic name.
(US) A bus station or railway station.
A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.