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Definition of entrepôt in English: entrepôtnounˈɒntrəpəʊˈɑntrəˌpoʊ A port, city, or other centre to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution. 堆栈，仓库；海关关栈；货物集散地；贸易中心 Hong Kong has long been an entrepôt between east and west the oil terminal was built as an entrepôt for north sea crude Example sentencesExamples - Korea and Taiwan industrialized in the 1950s through import-substitution, and Singapore and Hong Kong were initially commercial entrepôts.
- Around 120 BC, Ptolemaic Egypt pioneered coastal and then, once the seasonal wind patterns were mastered, open-ocean sea routes to India, making Alexandria a key entrepôt for the eastern trade with the Mediterranean.
- Singapore, incidentally, is one of the world's greatest entrepôts for spices, so has unrivalled resources in this respect.
- These days it is a busy entrepôt for Scandinavian ferries and sits alongside a shopping mall.
- Thus, while Britain squabbled with the USA and attacked Denmark in 1807, the French turned their attention to Portugal, which was an important entrepôt.
- Although its population grew, as an entrepôt for the China trade it was soon outstripped in importance by Shanghai.
- Venice, the great entrepôt of trade with the east, probably issued regulations as early as 1127, and was the first city to issue a complete quarantine code in 1448.
- Nuremberg was also a major entrepôt for wine, although its function lay in the distribution of imports, mostly of red wine, from the Mediterranean.
- It is only a few miles, but it's a transition from a dowdy, reactionary, seaside resort to a busy, wired-up entrepôt, connected to Europe and the modern world.
- These agreements only served to reinforce the country's primary function as an entrepôt between Western capitalist economies and the Communist countries of the East.
- Bristol, with its vital link with Bordeaux, was rapidly becoming the entrepôt of late medieval Severnside; whilst York, Coventry, and especially London were centres of international trade.
- Hong Kong was the biggest source of foreign investment in China, but this reflected the island's importance as a trade entrepôt as much as its importance as a separate source of new technology.
- Newspapers originated in early modern Europe as periodic merchants' letters, circulating information about prices, shipments, and commodities among far-flung commercial entrepôts.
- Montreal was the great inland entrepôt of the fur trade and an important military base.
- Ground-nut oil and palm oil were exported from Senegal, and Saigon was occupied after a war with China in 1858-60 as an entrepôt for the import of raw silk destined for Lyons.
- Gradually, their entrepôt function was being changed by the opening up of efficient transport links to their hinterland, and its transformation by manufacturing industry.
- The empire's wealth derived mainly from coastal entrepôts and its representatives often had to face highly developed Muslim civilizations.
- The city's wealth came almost entirely from its role as an entrepôt, moving goods from the eastern Mediterranean to Lombardy and over the Alps to northern Europe.
- In and out of their harbour at Port Glasgow, between 1741 and 1752, their import - export business rose from 7 to 21 million pounds, making Glasgow the European entrepôt.
- If primarily they were entrepôts for foreign traders, it is becoming increasingly apparent that they developed commercial hinterlands extending far inland.
OriginEarly 18th century: French, from entreposer 'to store', from entre 'among' + poser 'to place'. Definition of entrepôt in US English: entrepôtnounˈɑntrəˌpoʊˈäntrəˌpō A port, city, or other center to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution. 堆栈，仓库；海关关栈；货物集散地；贸易中心 Example sentencesExamples - Hong Kong was the biggest source of foreign investment in China, but this reflected the island's importance as a trade entrepôt as much as its importance as a separate source of new technology.
- Korea and Taiwan industrialized in the 1950s through import-substitution, and Singapore and Hong Kong were initially commercial entrepôts.
- Newspapers originated in early modern Europe as periodic merchants' letters, circulating information about prices, shipments, and commodities among far-flung commercial entrepôts.
- Ground-nut oil and palm oil were exported from Senegal, and Saigon was occupied after a war with China in 1858-60 as an entrepôt for the import of raw silk destined for Lyons.
- Venice, the great entrepôt of trade with the east, probably issued regulations as early as 1127, and was the first city to issue a complete quarantine code in 1448.
- Nuremberg was also a major entrepôt for wine, although its function lay in the distribution of imports, mostly of red wine, from the Mediterranean.
- Bristol, with its vital link with Bordeaux, was rapidly becoming the entrepôt of late medieval Severnside; whilst York, Coventry, and especially London were centres of international trade.
- Thus, while Britain squabbled with the USA and attacked Denmark in 1807, the French turned their attention to Portugal, which was an important entrepôt.
- These days it is a busy entrepôt for Scandinavian ferries and sits alongside a shopping mall.
- Montreal was the great inland entrepôt of the fur trade and an important military base.
- The city's wealth came almost entirely from its role as an entrepôt, moving goods from the eastern Mediterranean to Lombardy and over the Alps to northern Europe.
- Singapore, incidentally, is one of the world's greatest entrepôts for spices, so has unrivalled resources in this respect.
- The empire's wealth derived mainly from coastal entrepôts and its representatives often had to face highly developed Muslim civilizations.
- These agreements only served to reinforce the country's primary function as an entrepôt between Western capitalist economies and the Communist countries of the East.
- Although its population grew, as an entrepôt for the China trade it was soon outstripped in importance by Shanghai.
- Gradually, their entrepôt function was being changed by the opening up of efficient transport links to their hinterland, and its transformation by manufacturing industry.
- If primarily they were entrepôts for foreign traders, it is becoming increasingly apparent that they developed commercial hinterlands extending far inland.
- Around 120 BC, Ptolemaic Egypt pioneered coastal and then, once the seasonal wind patterns were mastered, open-ocean sea routes to India, making Alexandria a key entrepôt for the eastern trade with the Mediterranean.
- It is only a few miles, but it's a transition from a dowdy, reactionary, seaside resort to a busy, wired-up entrepôt, connected to Europe and the modern world.
- In and out of their harbour at Port Glasgow, between 1741 and 1752, their import - export business rose from 7 to 21 million pounds, making Glasgow the European entrepôt.
OriginEarly 18th century: French, from entreposer ‘to store’, from entre ‘among’ + poser ‘to place’. |