Usually means: Remove from office or power.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word depose:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. depose: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. depose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. depose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. depose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. depose: Vocabulary.com
  6. Depose, depose: Wordnik
  7. depose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. depose: Wiktionary
  9. depose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. depose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. depose: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. depose: Dictionary.com
  13. depose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Depose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Depose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. depose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. depose: Rhymezone
  18. depose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. depose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. depose: Free Dictionary
  21. depose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. depose: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. depose: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. depose: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. depose: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. depose: Legal dictionary
  7. depose: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depose: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depose: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deposed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
verb:  (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
verb:  (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
verb:  (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.
verb:  (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
verb:  To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

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