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Meaning of 'entrepot' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Entrepot [ n.]
- A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.

Meaning of 'entrepot' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . entrepot [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties
Example in sentence:
  • Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC
Meaning (2):
- a depository for goods
Example in sentence:
  • storehouses were built close to the docks

Nearby Words:

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