Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties;
- Example: "Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC"[syn: entrepot, transshipment center]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
transshipment center
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]