entrepôt

See also entrepot

English

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Alternative forms

• entrepot

Etymology

French entreposer (“to store”)

Noun

entrepôt (plural entrepôts)

1. A warehouse, depot.
2. A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution.
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.

Translations

a warehouse, depot

• Russian: пакгауз (ru) (pakgáuz) m, склад (ru) (sklád) m

processing-and-distribution center

• Russian: перевалочный пункт (ru) (pereváločnyj púnkt) m

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French

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɑ̃t.ʁǝ.po/

Noun

entrepôt m (plural entrepôts)

1. warehouse; store

Anagrams

• optèrent
• péteront