Milk bottles can easily be re-used, and the hefty deposit provides a strong impetus for consumers to return them.

Still, as I charged hefty nonrefundable deposits for the resorts on my credit card, I worried - and not only about the weather.

As long as the hefty deposits kept being made to his bank account, he'd keep doing his job.

I'd put down a hefty nonrefundable deposit, but it was going to be worth it.

Even then, a hefty deposit is often required.

Only those with hefty deposits and sparkling credit ratings qualify for the best deals.

(An effort last year to require a hefty deposit, of up to $800, for vehicles driven into Mexico was suspended in January.)

Given the results of this survey so far, we are certain to make a rather hefty deposit in the bank of cosmological knowledge.

FunTime, Inc., had already been paid a hefty deposit for the carnival's two-night stand, and the fireworks had cost the town treasury a pretty penny.

IN mid-September, a Wall Street trader and his stockbroker fiancee plunked down a hefty deposit to buy a co-op apartment on West End Avenue.