entrepôt

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  1. noun A place where goods are stored or deposited and from which they are distributed.
  2. noun A trading or market center.

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  1. French, from entreposer, to store : entre, in, among (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + poser, to place (from Old French; see pose1).

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  1. French, from Latin interpositum, neuter of interpositus, past participle of interponere, place between, from inter, between, + ponere, place: see interpose, etc. Cf. depot.
 

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