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Trading center
Answer for the clue "Trading center ", 8 letters:
entrepot
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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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A warehouse, depot. 2 A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution. 3 A point of entry for people, especially immigrants, into a city or country.
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.