Definition of Entrepôt

1. Noun. A port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties. "Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC"

Exact synonyms: Transshipment Center
Generic synonyms: Port

2. Noun. A depository for goods. "Storehouses were built close to the docks"

Definition of Entrepôt

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of entrepôt) ¹

2. Noun. A warehouse, depot. ¹

3. Noun. A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Entrepôt

1. a warehouse [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrepôt

entred
entree
entrees
entremes
entremets
entremots
entrench
entrenched
entrencher
entrenchers
entrenches
entrenching
entrenching tool
entrenchment
entrenchments
entrepot
entrepots
entreprenerd
entreprenerds
entrepreneur
entrepreneurial
entrepreneurialism
entrepreneurially
entrepreneurs
entrepreneurship
entreprise
entreprise-union
entres
entresol
entresols

Literary usage of Entrepôt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zimmermann on Ocean Shipping by Erich Walter Zimmermann (1921)
"CHAPTER V ENTREPOT CENTRES AND FREE PORTS Nature of entrepot trade.—According to the definition given in the preceding chapter, the third function of ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"The Siglio XIX., a newspaper printed at Merida, publishes a decree of the governor of Yucatan, establishing an entrepot for imported goods at ..."

3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"The Siglio XIX., a newspaper printed at Merida, publishes a decree of the governor of Yucatan, establishing an entrepot for imported goods at ..."

4. The Old South and the New: A Series of Letters by William Darrah Kelley (1888)
"SOUTH PITTSBURG THE ENTREPOT FOR THE ... as it is the predestined entrepot for a number of valleys, each of which is remarkable for salubrity, fertility, ..."

5. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 by Alfred Thayer MAHAN (1905)
"... according to the Act. In this there is a partial remission of the entrepot exaction, while the nursing of the carrying trade is carefully guarded. ..."

6. United States and Mexico: Commerce, Trade, and Postal Facilities Between the by Carlos Butterfield (1861)
"This is the Entrepot trade, which we at one time maintained to a considerable extent, and can again establish on a far larger scale with Mexico. ..."

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