| 单词 | entrepôt |
| 释义 | ‖ entrepôt|ɑ̃trpo|
Also 8 erron. entre-port.
[Fr.:—Lat. type interpositum, neut. pa. pple. of interpōnĕre, f. inter between + pōnĕre to place.]
1. Temporary deposit of goods, provisions, etc.; chiefly concr. a storehouse or assemblage of storehouses for temporary deposit. Also fig.
1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. Pref. 25 A place of Entre-Port for the Depository of their Goods. 1782T. Pownall Antiq. 68 The people..settled..many entrepôts, and out-distant factories. 1802Playfair Illustr. Hutton. Th. 363 It may have..served for an entrepot, as it were, where those debris were deposited. 1811Wellington in Gurw. Disp. VIII. 410 Their [the troops'] surplus means of transport might be applied..to form an entrepôt at a convenient distance. 1871Maine Vill. Commun. vi. 197 The merchant..carries his goods from the place of production, stores them in local entrepôts.
2. A commercial centre; a place to which goods are brought for distribution to various parts of the world. Also attrib., as in entrepôt-trade.
1758Chesterfield Lett. (1792) IV. 118 The place where you are now is the great entrepôt of business. 1812Examiner 19 Oct. 658/2 Moscow is the entrepot of Asia and Europe. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxiv. 607 The most important entrepot of the herring fishery was Yarmouth in Norfolk. 1883Pall Mall G. 5 Apr. 2/1 A diversion from our entrepôt trade.
3. A mart or place where goods are received and deposited, free of duty, for exportation to another port or country. |
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