entrepot

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But its history shows the current battle for the strait is just the latest iteration of a centuries-old fight to control the critical trade entrepôt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 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

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

Dandong is the region’s main trading entrepôt, mostly for gray-market goods.

From Time • Mar. 3, 2016

Important commercial advantages cannot fail to accrue from the occupation of so secure an entrepôt, which at any season of the year may be entered and quitted with equal facility.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis