entrepôt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a trading port or commercial center where goods are imported, stored, and re-exported

   The island developed into an entrepôt for trade between Europe and Asia.

2. 2
   noun

   a warehouse or depot where goods are stored in transit

   Imported cloth remained in the entrepôt until merchants arranged its onward shipment.

Borrowed from French entrepôt ('storehouse, depot'), from entreposer ('to store between stages'), formed from entre ('between') + poser ('to place'). The commercial sense developed around goods held temporarily during transit.

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