entrepot
Example Sentences
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The limitations of those routes have forced Iran and Hezbollah to lean more heavily on alternatives like Dubai, the United Arab Emirates’ increasingly important global financial entrepôt that Tehran has long used to launder funds and evade sanctions, said the people familiar with the matter, who include a senior U.S. official.
In time, America became such an entrepôt among these continents that an eighteenth-century visitor, lending this show its title and theme, called Mexico City ‘the archive of the world.’
From New York Times
Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years this week to meet Vladimir Putin at the ancient Silk Road entrepot of Samarkand.
From Reuters
All around them, a city has been transformed: by the dizzying economic expansion of mainland China threatening to make this international entrepôt unnecessary, but also by the crushing of freedoms by Hong Kong’s current rulers, who have filled jails with young political prisoners.
From New York Times
Much of its layout dates back to its time as an Ottoman protectorate and entrepot for corsair plunder, in the centuries before a French expeditionary force landed at Sidi Ferruch in 1830.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
