Crossword clues for entrepot
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.
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a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported with paying import duties; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrep[^o]t for shipping goods in transit.
Syn: transshipment center. [WordNet 1.5] ||
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).
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of entrepôt English)
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.
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 built close to the docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, storage, store]
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 centers played a critical role in trade during the days of wind-powered shipping. In modern times customs areas have largely made such entrepôts obsolete, but the term is still used to refer to duty-free ports with a high volume of re-export trade. This type of port should not be confused with the modern French usage of the word entrepôt, meaning warehouse.
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.