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

The museum was founded in the late 19th century, when Hamburg was a thriving entrepôt for the expanding German empire, importing raw materials like rubber, sugar and ivory from colonies around the globe.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021

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

But as they were in great demand, and were very costly, merchants contrived to find a new passage for them, and Smyrna became their entrepôt.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de