entrepôt
Americannoun
plural
entrepôts-
a warehouse.
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a commercial center where goods are received for distribution, transshipment, or repackaging.
noun
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a warehouse for commercial goods
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a trading centre or port at a geographically convenient location, at which goods are imported and re-exported without incurring liability for duty
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( as modifier )
an entrepôt trade
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Etymology
Origin of entrepôt
1715–25; < French, equivalent to entre inter- + pôt < Latin positum, noun use of neuter past participle of pōnere to put, place (modeled on dépôt depot )
Vocabulary lists containing entrepot
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Example Sentences
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The Strait of Hormuz has been a critical trading entrepôt for centuries, a passageway between the Persian and Oman gulfs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
Los Angeles is also a major metropolitan entrepôt, and that means a steady supply of new visitors, people who want to experience a mostly invisible business — filmmaking — in a tangible way.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022
There was a good Chinese restaurant run by a man whose father came to Aden in the 1940s, when it was a lively entrepôt full of Indians, Chinese, Africans and Arabs.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2018
Sure, New Orleans sits near the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River and is an important entrepôt and site for export of raw materials, agricultural commodities chemicals, and petroleum products.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017
One would have considered Quebec a great entrepôt.
From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
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