entrepot

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Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years this week to meet Vladimir Putin at the ancient Silk Road entrepot of Samarkand.

From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2022

Much of its layout dates back to its time as an Ottoman protectorate and entrepot for corsair plunder, in the centuries before a French expeditionary force landed at Sidi Ferruch in 1830.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

The Russian court was an entrepot of power: its role as a broker allowed participants to amass wealth and bonded them in shared loyalty.

From Economist • Feb. 18, 2016

It is a bet that China will grow, but that its legal and financial systems will remain backward enough that Hong Kong will still have a vital role as the mainland’s first-world entrepot.

From Economist • Feb. 4, 2016

The quantity shipped from this entrepot is shown by the annexed returns, nearly all of which was grown and manufactured in the settlement.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.