entrepôt

• entrepot

Borrowed from French entrepôt, from entreposer (“to store”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑntɹəˈpəʊ/

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entrepôt (plural entrepôts)

1. A warehouse, depot.
2. A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution.
   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, OCLC 1087897007, OL 8643066M, page x:

     South of Taichung is the old port town of Lu-kang. Here again we come face to face with Taiwan’s past, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Founded in the seventeenth century, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Lu-kang was an important port city with strong ties to Ch’uan-chou—the eighteenth-century classic but declining entrepôt of southern Min Fukien.

3. A point of entry for people, especially immigrants, into a city or country.
   • 2012, The Economist, 20th Oct 2012, Immigration: The Tories’ barmiest policy

     The country has, in effect, installed a “keep out” sign over the white cliffs of Dover. Even as Mr Cameron defends the City of London as a global financial centre, and takes planeloads of business folk on foreign trips, his government ratchets up measures that would turn an entrepôt into a fortress.

From substantive of entreposer, with influence from dépôt.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁə.po/

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entrepôt m (plural entrepôts)

1. warehouse; store

• “entrepôt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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