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Definition of Entrepot

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"

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

Definition of Entrepot

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 Entrepot

1. a warehouse [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrepot

entred entree entrees entremes entremets entremots entrench entrenched entrencher entrenchers

entrenches entrenching entrenching tool entrenchment entrenchments entrepot (current term) entrepots entreprenerd entreprenerds entrepreneur

entrepreneurial entrepreneurialism entrepreneurially entrepreneurs entrepreneurship entreprise entreprise-union entres entresol entresols

Literary usage of Entrepot

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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