| NOUN | location | entrepot, transshipment center | a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties |
|---|---|---|---|
| artifact | entrepot, storehouse, depot, storage, store | a depository for goods |
| Meaning | A port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties. | |
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| Example | "Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC" | |
| Synonym | transshipment center | |
| Broader | port | A place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country |
| Catalan | centre d'importació i exportació | |
| Meaning | A depository for goods. | |
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| Synonyms | storehouse, depot, storage, store | |
| Narrower | dump | A place where supplies can be stored |
| granary, garner | A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | |
| magazine, powder store, powder magazine | A storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored | |
| railhead | A railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution | |
| treasure house | A storehouse for treasures | |
| warehouse, storage warehouse | A storehouse for goods and merchandise | |
| Broader | depository, deposit, depositary, repository | A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping |
| Spanish | almacén, depósito | |
| Catalan | magatzem | |
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