Entrepot Definition

ŏntrə-pō
noun
A place for the storage of goods; warehouse.
Webster's New World
A distributing center for goods.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary

A point of entry for people, especially immigrants, into a city or country.

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Other Word Forms of Entrepot

Noun

Singular:
entrepot
Plural:
entrepots, entrepts

Origin of Entrepot

  • French from entreposer to store entre in, among (from Latin inter- inter–) poser to place (from Old French pose1)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French, from entreposer (“to store”)

    From Wiktionary

Entrepot Sentence Examples

  • It is the chief entrepot for grain from the basin of the lower Oka, and carries on an active trade with Moscow and Nizhniy-Novgorod.

  • Its most important trade by land, besides Austria, is done with Germany, Trieste being the entrepot for Germany's commerce with India and the Mediterranean countries.

  • It thus forms the entrepot for the commerce of the Riff district and its hinterland.

  • The arrival of the first railway train, on the 9th of February 1880, marked a new epoch in the history of Santa Fe, which until then had remained essentially a Mexican town; but with the discontinuance of the wagon caravans over the old trail, it lost its importance as the entrepot for the commerce of the South-west.

  • The railway has a terminus at Suakin, but Port Sudan was chosen as the principal entrepot of the commerce carried by the railway.

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