entrepot
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But its history shows the current battle for the strait is just the latest iteration of a centuries-old fight to control the critical trade entrepôt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
Los Angeles is also a major metropolitan entrepôt, and that means a steady supply of new visitors, people who want to experience a mostly invisible business — filmmaking — in a tangible way.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022
Sure, New Orleans sits near the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River and is an important entrepôt and site for export of raw materials, agricultural commodities chemicals, and petroleum products.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017
Dandong is the region’s main trading entrepôt, mostly for gray-market goods.
From Time • Mar. 3, 2016
Moreover, this entrepôt trade of ours is not in itself a thing to be sneezed at; it contributes a goodly fraction of the wealth of the city of London.
From Are we Ruined by the Germans? by Cox, Harold
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