entrepôt

• entrepot

Borrowed from French entrepôt, from entreposer (“to store”)

entrepôt (plural entrepôts)

1. A warehouse, depot.
2. A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution.
3. A point of entry for people, especially immigrants, into a city or country.
   • 2012, The Economist, 20th Oct 2012, Immigration: The Tories’ barmiest policy

     The country has, in effect, installed a “keep out” sign over the white cliffs of Dover. Even as Mr Cameron defends the City of London as a global financial centre, and takes planeloads of business folk on foreign trips, his government ratchets up measures that would turn an entrepôt into a fortress.

From substantive of entreposer, with influence from dépôt.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃t.ʁə.po/

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entrepôt m (plural entrepôts)

1. warehouse; store

• “entrepôt” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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• péteront