say it: dep-uh-ZISH-uhn
deposition is a noun meaning "the natural process of laying down a deposit of something". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
(law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office
law
the act of putting something somewhere
the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deposition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.