noun

• A port, city, or other centre to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution.

  ‘Hong Kong has long been an entrepôt between east and west’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the oil terminal was built as an entrepôt for north sea crude’
  • ‘These agreements only served to reinforce the country's primary function as an entrepôt between Western capitalist economies and the Communist countries of the East.’
  • ‘Ground-nut oil and palm oil were exported from Senegal, and Saigon was occupied after a war with China in 1858-60 as an entrepôt for the import of raw silk destined for Lyons.’
  • ‘Nuremberg was also a major entrepôt for wine, although its function lay in the distribution of imports, mostly of red wine, from the Mediterranean.’
  • ‘Venice, the great entrepôt of trade with the east, probably issued regulations as early as 1127, and was the first city to issue a complete quarantine code in 1448.’
  • ‘Newspapers originated in early modern Europe as periodic merchants' letters, circulating information about prices, shipments, and commodities among far-flung commercial entrepôts.’
  • ‘Korea and Taiwan industrialized in the 1950s through import-substitution, and Singapore and Hong Kong were initially commercial entrepôts.’
  • ‘If primarily they were entrepôts for foreign traders, it is becoming increasingly apparent that they developed commercial hinterlands extending far inland.’
  • ‘The empire's wealth derived mainly from coastal entrepôts and its representatives often had to face highly developed Muslim civilizations.’
  • ‘Singapore, incidentally, is one of the world's greatest entrepôts for spices, so has unrivalled resources in this respect.’
  • ‘Around 120 BC, Ptolemaic Egypt pioneered coastal and then, once the seasonal wind patterns were mastered, open-ocean sea routes to India, making Alexandria a key entrepôt for the eastern trade with the Mediterranean.’
  • ‘In and out of their harbour at Port Glasgow, between 1741 and 1752, their import - export business rose from 7 to 21 million pounds, making Glasgow the European entrepôt.’
  • ‘Bristol, with its vital link with Bordeaux, was rapidly becoming the entrepôt of late medieval Severnside; whilst York, Coventry, and especially London were centres of international trade.’
  • ‘The city's wealth came almost entirely from its role as an entrepôt, moving goods from the eastern Mediterranean to Lombardy and over the Alps to northern Europe.’
  • ‘Thus, while Britain squabbled with the USA and attacked Denmark in 1807, the French turned their attention to Portugal, which was an important entrepôt.’
  • ‘Hong Kong was the biggest source of foreign investment in China, but this reflected the island's importance as a trade entrepôt as much as its importance as a separate source of new technology.’
  • ‘Although its population grew, as an entrepôt for the China trade it was soon outstripped in importance by Shanghai.’
  • ‘These days it is a busy entrepôt for Scandinavian ferries and sits alongside a shopping mall.’
  • ‘Gradually, their entrepôt function was being changed by the opening up of efficient transport links to their hinterland, and its transformation by manufacturing industry.’
  • ‘It is only a few miles, but it's a transition from a dowdy, reactionary, seaside resort to a busy, wired-up entrepôt, connected to Europe and the modern world.’
  • ‘Montreal was the great inland entrepôt of the fur trade and an important military base.’