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Import/export port

Answer for the clue "Import/export port ", 8 letters:
entrepot

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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.

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, ...

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 ).

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 ...

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.