entrepot

Example Sentences

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The Strait of Hormuz has been a critical trading entrepôt for centuries, a passageway between the Persian and Oman gulfs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Los Angeles is also a major metropolitan entrepôt, and that means a steady supply of new visitors, people who want to experience a mostly invisible business — filmmaking — in a tangible way.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022

Or does it portend a flattening of Los Angeles into just another entrepôt of a single art system — one less and less distinct from New York?

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2019

Sure, New Orleans sits near the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River and is an important entrepôt and site for export of raw materials, agricultural commodities chemicals, and petroleum products.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017

Besides the increase of national shipping, the idea of entrepôt received recognition in both the earlier and later developments of the system.

From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)