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Definitions: Entrepot |
EntrepotNoun1. A port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported without paying import duties; "Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millenium BC". 2. A depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "entrepot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | An intermediary storage facility (often in an intermediate country) where goods are kept temporarily for distribution. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EntrepotSynonyms: depot (n), storage (n), store (n), storehouse (n), transshipment center (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mart | Warehouse, wareroom; depot, interposit, entrepot. |
Store | Storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank; (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Entrepot |
| English words defined with "entrepot": transshipment center. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "entrepot": Entrepot Trade. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Malaysia | Malacca was a major regional entrepot, where Chinese, Arab, Malay, and Indian merchants traded precious goods. (references) |
Hong Kong | Hong Kong's modern and efficient infrastructure supports Hong Kong's role as a trade entrepot and regional financial and services center. (references) | |
Laos | LAOS' SIGNIFICANT NATURAL RESOURCES, PROXIMITY TO LARGE EXTERNAL MARKETS, AND POTENTIALLY STRATEGIC POSITION FOR ENTREPOT TRADE ARE UNEXPLOITED ASSETS. (references) | |
Trade | Cape Verde | Entrepot activities can be undertaken, such as the storage of goods without payment of duties, with storage periods ranging up to four years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Entrepot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Entrepot" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
entrepot l rona | 73 |
entrepot rona | 38 |
entrepot | 14 |
du entrepot hockey | 10 |
du entrepot pc | 9 |
entrepot ordinateur | 4 |
entrepot nantes | 3 |
entrepot laurent louer saint | 2 |
entrepot reno | 2 |
entrepot public | 2 |
entrepot louer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "entrepot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Farsi | مرکزبازرگانی (Mart), انبارموقتی , انبارکالا (Storage, Storehouse, Warehouse), انبار (Arsenal, Cellar, Depository, Depot, Garner, Godown, Lodge, Repertory, Repository, Sluice, Store, Tender, Thesaurus). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | thie custym (custom house). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | entrepotay ticaret merkezi (center of trade, centre of trade, emporium, rialto, trade center), depo (depository, depot, goods yard, packing house, receptacle, repertory, repository, reservoir, stock room, storage, store, storeroom, tank, warehouse, yard), antrepo (bonded warehouse, packing house, storehouse, warehouse). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "entrepot": entrepots. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-o-p-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: portent, potteen, proette, treetop. | |
-2 letters: netter, opener, pereon, petter, poteen, potent, potter, reopen, repent, rotten, tenter, torten. | |
-3 letters: enter, netop, noter, otter, peter, petto, preen, prone, rente, repot, rotte, tenet, tenor, terne, toner, topee, toper, torte, toter, treen, trone, trope. | |
-4 letters: erne, neep, nett, nope, note, open, peen, peer, pent, peon, pert, poet, pone. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-o-p-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: entrepots, prepotent. | |
+2 letters: deportment, overpotent, petitioner, repetition. | |
+3 letters: contretemps, counterstep, deportments, enteropathy, expectorant, fetoprotein, interceptor, interpolate, paternoster, penetration, petitioners, prepotently, pretentious, repetitions, septentrion, teleporting, transportee, treponemata, unprotected. | |
+4 letters: countersteps, expectorants, fetoproteins, inspectorate, interception, interceptors, interoceptor, interpolated, interpolates, introspected, paternosters, penetrations, penetrometer, perpetration, perpetuation, petrogenetic, presentation, receptionist, repetitional, septentrions, stereopticon, stereotyping, transportees. | |
+5 letters: compartmented, contraceptive, counterpicket, decrepitation, electrotyping, enteropathies, expectorating, expectoration, inspectorates, interceptions, interoceptive, interoceptors, interpellator, interpolative, introspective, nonpersistent, penetrometers, perfectionist, peritonitises, perpetrations, perpetuations, photoelectron, posttreatment, potentiometer, precommitment, predestinator, premeditation, presentations, pretentiously, pretournament, reappointment, receptionists, reexportation, repartitioned, retinopathies, retrospecting, retrospection, septentrional, stereopticons, streptokinase, superfetation, teleportation, unpretentious. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 74 72 65 70 6F 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. - .-. . .--. --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01100101 01110000 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n t r e p o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0074 0072 0065 0070 006F 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3980868471828186 |
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