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money you hand over twice: once to the bank, once to the void called your landlord
means To place something somewhere for safekeeping, or the money or matter so placed — whether cash in a bank, a security held against damage, or sediment laid down by water.
from From Latin 'depositum,' a thing put down or entrusted, from 'deponere' — 'de-' (down) plus 'ponere' (to place, to put). The same 'ponere' fathered a whole family: 'position,' 'compose,' 'opponent,' 'postpone.' So a deposit is, at root, simply something set down — and the geological sense (silt deposited by a river) and the financial sense (money set down with a bank) are siblings, both children of that act of placing.
- latin root
- deponere means to lay down or set aside
- geology twist
- rivers deposit gold flakes worth digging for
- banking magic
- banks lend out most deposits, keeping fractions
- renter dread
- security deposits rarely return fully intact
- chemistry too
- vapor deposits thin films onto microchips
grand coulee dam — largest concrete structure in us, holds 9.5 trillion gallons of water in lake roosevelt
fort knox gold depository — us army facility in kentucky storing 147.3 million ounces of gold, 8,133 tons
svalbard global seed vault — norway's doomsday vault on spitsbergen island holding 1.1 million seed samples since 2008