entrepot

Noun

Meaning

A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

depot storage store storehouse transshipment center emporium arsenal mall repertory garner memory depository granary larder magazine
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Antonyms

consumption spend discharge distribute dissipate dispel
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Hypernyms

port depository depositary deposit repository

Hyponyms

garner granary magazine warehouse dump railhead

Examples

storehouses were built close to the docks Source: Internet

Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC Source: Internet

But Dubai contacts and mercantile skills increased resilience and the ability to profit from favourable conditions for entrepot trade with Persia and India after the 1939-45 war. Source: Internet

It’s not even August 26th and I have only had water for 2 days last week…Entrepot. Source: Internet

Well, I am no ideologue, and will just say that I believe we probably have no choice: Vancouver can no longer just be the entrepot for moving Canada's natural resources -- forest products, minerals, corn, fish, etc. -- that it was for its first century. Source: Internet

Situated in a strategic location between China and the trading networks of southeast Asia, the state served as an entrepot and collected tolls on water traffic. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

entrenchment entrepas entreporneur entreprenerd entreprenertia entrepreneur