[syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
entrepot \en`tre*pot"\, Entrepot \En`tre*p[^o]t"\, n. [F.]
1. A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.
[1913 Webster]
2. a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported
with paying import duties; a mart or place where
merchandise is deposited; as, an entrep[^o]t for shipping
goods in transit.
Syn: transshipment center.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
entrepot
n 1: a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported
without paying import duties; "Bahrain has been an entrepot
of trade between Arabia and India since the second
millennium BC" [syn: entrepot, transshipment center]
2: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage,
store]
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
ENTREPOT. A warehouse; a magazine where goods are deposited, and which are
again to be removed.