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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

... reputation, by means of the Arabs, had even reached Europe—and Zeila, the Avalites portus of the ancients, and the principal town of the Adel coast, upon the Gulf of Oman, at the entrance of the Arabian Sea. After a somewhat long stay in that country, he returned by Aden, then the principal entrepot of the commerce of the east, went as far as Ormuz, at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, and then again passing up the Red Sea, ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part I. The Exploration of the World • Jules Verne