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a depository for goods
storehouses were built close to the docks -
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
How To Use entrepot In A Sentence
- These days it is a busy entrepôt for Scandinavian ferries and sits alongside a shopping mall.
- A Singapore flagged EML-1 "entrepot" transfer station would be a great way to start and perhaps President Obama could be persuaded to support such a neutral flagged facility as an exercise in cooperative and collaborative international space policy. Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch
- As an entrepot, we handle a large volume of re - exports .
- An historic entrepot city that is already a financial powerhouse. Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
- Montreal was the great inland entrepôt of the fur trade and an important military base.
- The next object of our fleet was to be the bombarding of Granville, which is the great 'entrepot' of their Newfoundland fishery, and will be a considerable loss to them in that branch of their trade. Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
- Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC
- As an entrepot, we handle a large volume of re - exports .
- It is this massive boom in poultry that is largely responsible for changing the rural South from a biracial, agricultural culture to a globalized entrepot.
- It is only a few miles, but it's a transition from a dowdy, reactionary, seaside resort to a busy, wired-up entrepôt, connected to Europe and the modern world.
