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A port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported without paying import duties
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entrepot
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Wikipedia
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An entrepôt ( French for "warehouse") or transshipment port is a port, city, or trading post where merchandise may be imported , stored or traded, usually to be exported again. These commercial cities spawned due the growth of long-distance trade. Such ...
Wiktionary
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n. (alternative spelling of entrepôt English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"warehouse," 1758, from French entrepôt (16c.), from Latin interpositum "that which is placed between," neuter past participle of interponere "to place between" (see interposition ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
entrepot \en`tre*pot"\, ||Entrepot \En`tre*p[^o]t"\, n. [F.] 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, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported without paying import duties; "Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millenium BC" [syn: transshipment center ] a depository for goods; "storehouses were ...
Usage examples of entrepot.
This was before the discovery of the ultimate entrepot above the false ceiling in Subdorm B's male hallway.
Unfortunately, now that Hsaioi-An and the Republic were trading freely, or at least relatively freely, through the merchants on entrepot worlds like Burning Bright, both sides would suffer from a change in attitude.
Within two days, they captured the great port at Charax and have been turning it into the entrepot for their invasion of Mesopotamia.
You'd expect some sort of watch to be kept on the entrepots to one of its most important cities, in case some enterprising Venageti commander decided to try something imaginative.