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

Or does it portend a flattening of Los Angeles into just another entrepôt of a single art system — one less and less distinct from New York?

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2019

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

It was about half an hour before sunset when we entered Buffalo, the City of the Lakes, the entrepôt for these inland oceans.

From Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Power, Tyrone