entrepôt
noun
en·tre·pôt ˈäⁿ(n)-trə-ˌpō 
: an intermediary center of trade and transshipment
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Much of central Shashamene, a booming entrepot some 200km south, was burned to the ground. 
The Economist, 1 Aug. 2020 His children are now at the age (early 30s) when in years past the Sassoons, an Asian trading dynasty, would dispatch them to entrepots to advance the family concern. The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019 That faith, already shaken during weeks of political protests against the entrepot’s pro-Beijing government, is in tatters following China’s treatment of Cathay Pacific, an airline based in Hong Kong. The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019 Singapore is a trading entrepot, with a big and busy port. The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019 Occult-minded visitors streamed in and added their own legends and theories, and today Mount Shasta is an entrepot for all things New Age. Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019 Fibonacci lived in a professional entrepot then called Bugia, not as a warrior or an enemy, but as a regular person and student who respected his teachers. Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 11 June 2019 Dubai, an Arabian Peninsula entrepot, long has been a favorite port of call for those skirting the law. Washington Post, 12 June 2018 Occult-minded visitors streamed in and added their own legends and theories, and today Mount Shasta is an entrepot for all things New Age. Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019 See More
The Economist, 1 Aug. 2020 His children are now at the age (early 30s) when in years past the Sassoons, an Asian trading dynasty, would dispatch them to entrepots to advance the family concern. The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019 That faith, already shaken during weeks of political protests against the entrepot’s pro-Beijing government, is in tatters following China’s treatment of Cathay Pacific, an airline based in Hong Kong. The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019 Singapore is a trading entrepot, with a big and busy port. The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019 Occult-minded visitors streamed in and added their own legends and theories, and today Mount Shasta is an entrepot for all things New Age. Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019 Fibonacci lived in a professional entrepot then called Bugia, not as a warrior or an enemy, but as a regular person and student who respected his teachers. Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 11 June 2019 Dubai, an Arabian Peninsula entrepot, long has been a favorite port of call for those skirting the law. Washington Post, 12 June 2018 Occult-minded visitors streamed in and added their own legends and theories, and today Mount Shasta is an entrepot for all things New Age. Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
French, from Middle French entrepost, from entreposer to put between, from entre- inter- + poser to pose, put
First Known Use
1732, in the meaning defined above
- repulsing
- repulsion
- repulsion motor
- repulsion-induction motor
- repulsions
- repulsive
- repulsively
- repulsiveness
- repulsivenesses
- repump
- repumped
- repumping
- repumps
- repunctuate
- repunctuated
- repunctuating
- repunctuation
- repunctuations
- repunits
- repurchase
- repurchase agreement
- repurchased
- repurchases
- repurchasing
- repure