entrepot
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The Strait of Hormuz has been a critical trading entrepôt for centuries, a passageway between the Persian and Oman gulfs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 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
There they had been suffered to remain, but the destruction of Porto Lokkoh, the chief entrepôt of the Sierra Leone trade, necessitated further measures being taken against them.
From The History of the First West India Regiment by Ellis, A. B. (Alfred Burdon)
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Southeast Asia - Middle School
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Southeast Asia - High School
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