entrepôt
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See also: entrepot
Etymology
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Borrowed from French entrepôt, entrepost (“temporary storage of goods; place for temporary storage and distribution of goods”) (archaic), from entreposer (“to store goods in a warehouse”), with the ending influenced by dépôt (“store, warehouse, depot”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɒntɹəˈpəʊ/, /ˈɒntɹəpəʊ/, /ˈɒ̃-/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɑntɹəˈpoʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
- Hyphenation: en‧tre‧pôt
Noun
entrepôt (plural entrepôts) (business)
- A city, port, or other place where merchandise is sent for import, processing, distribution, and/or export, especially one where such merchandise is exempt from some customs duties; hence, a commercial centre.
- 1999, Murray A. Rubenstein, “Introduction”, in Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History (An East Gate Book; Taiwan in the Modern World), Armonk, N.Y., London: M[yron] E. Sharpe, →ISBN, 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.
- 2012 October 20, “Immigration: The Tories’ barmiest policy”, in The Economist, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-12-06:
- So why is Mr [David] Cameron's government pursuing an immigration policy that is creating red tape, stifling entrepreneurs and hobbling Britain? 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.
- (archaic)
- The temporary storage of merchandise, especially for subsequent distribution or export.
- (also figuratively) A depot or warehouse for temporarily storing merchandise.
Alternative forms
Translations
city, port, or other place where merchandise is sent for import, processing, distribution, and/or export
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commercial centre
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temporary storage of merchandise, especially for subsequent distribution or export
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References
- “entrepôt, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “entrepôt, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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