entrepôt
Americannoun
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entrepôts
plural
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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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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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 )
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Singapore, a centuries-old entrepôt, has leveraged its location on the main Middle East-to-Asia oil-trade route to become a major energy trading and refining hub.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
The museum was founded in the late 19th century, when Hamburg was a thriving entrepôt for the expanding German empire, importing raw materials like rubber, sugar and ivory from colonies around the globe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
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
Already the up-river steamers were afloat on all the tributary streams of the mighty Mississippi, laden with the produce of its almost limitless valley, and converging towards the great Southern entrepôt of American commerce.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
THE cliché of luxury penthouses and Gucci stores cheek-by-jowl with filth and poverty is usually reserved for poor-world entrepôts.
From Economist ● May 31, 2018
The great entrepôts of Caffa and Tana having fallen into decay, all the routes leading to them were forsaken.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
The Hanseatic merchants of earlier fur-trading days in Northern Europe had established their forts or factories at Novgorod, at Bergen, and elsewhere, great entrepôts stored with merchandise for the neighboring territories.
From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by William Bennett Munro
Naturally they were almost barren and of little account as plantations; but as entrepôts they were exceedingly useful, not only to their owners, but to the belligerents as well.
From The West Indies and the Spanish Main by James Rodway
Grants to rural communes to assist them to purchase agricultural machinery collectively, to acquire communal domains, worked under the control of the communes by unions of rural laborers, and to establish depôts and entrepôts.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
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