dep

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of department.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of deposit.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of departure.
4. (countable, informal, uncountable)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.”

5. (countable, informal, uncountable)A deputy.

   “[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.”

6. (Canada, Quebec, countable, informal, uncountable)A dépanneur.
7. (countable, informal, uncountable)A dependency.
8. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of delayed entry program.

   “A DEP allows a recruit to complete education before joining the military.”

9. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of data execution prevention.

verb

1. (informal)To deputize.

   “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).”

2. depart or departs
3. deposed

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Department of Environmental protection.