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noun

Entrepot n.

A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.

A port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported with paying import duties; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepôt for shipping goods in transit.

Synonyms: transshipment center.

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Etymology of 'Entrepot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Entrepot" Quotes from Famous Books

... at Woosung waiting for the tide to change, we were frequently reminded that we could not be far from a great commercial entrepot of the world, by seeing five or six large ships, of one thousand tons each, rush past with the tide in as many hours, tea-laden and bound to Europe; but none of our company were prepared for what we saw as we first rounded the point where a good view of Shanghai ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... Falls" of the West, was the entrepot of the Blue Grass region. It had been a place of some importance since Revolutionary days, for in seasons of low water the rapids in the Ohio at this point gave employment to scores of laborers who assisted the flatboatmen ...

— The Paths of Inland Commerce - A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, Volume 21 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Archer B. Hulbert

... is the entrepot of the province, and the chief seat of its trade. On reaching it we halted, ...

— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid

... go as near as possible to the hostile quarter, without absolutely entering it. To admit the latter, they proved to demonstration, would be changing the character of their own island from that of an entrepot to that of a mere thoroughfare. No reasonable monikin could expect it ...

— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper

... commerce. Scylacium, on the bay which lies southward of the Iapygian promontory, was intended to revivify a decayed Greek settlement and to reawaken the industries of the desolated Bruttian coast; while Neptunia was seemingly the name of the new entrepot which he founded at the head of the Tarentine Gulf. It was apparently established on the land which Rome had wrested from Tarentum, and may have originally formed a town distinct from this Greek city, once the great seaport of Calabria, but retaining little of ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge