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Noun: entrepot  'ón-tru,pow
  1. 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";
    - transshipment center [US], transshipment centre [Brit, Cdn]
     
  2. A depository for goods
    "entrepots were built close to the docks";
    - storehouse, depot, storage, store

Derived forms: entrepots

Type of: deposit, depositary, depository, port, repository

Encyclopedia: Entrepot