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- noun Plural form of
entrepot .
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Examples
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Called the Swine Flu, for a while it seemed that it could be contained at the entrepots of the country where the incoming passengers could be quickly quarantined and segregated from the general population.
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With a civilization clustered around the oasis entrepots that marked the Silk Road connecting West to East, the Tocharians are thought to have played a major role in spreading Buddhism from India to China.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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The bulk of this trade was done in a round-about way, tribe to tribe or from established entrepots.
Kingdom of the Ark, by Lorraine Evans. Book review Carla 2007
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You'd expect some sort of watch to be kept on the entrepots to one of its most important cities, in case some enterprising Venageti commander decided to try something imaginative.
Bitter Gold Hearts Cook, Glen 1988
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The chief source of supply was the iron-manufacturing districts of Pennsylvania and Virginia, whence the wares were carried to the entrepots of river trade by packhorses.
The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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The situation of all the three is extremely advantageous, and naturally fits them to be the entrepots of a great part of the goods destined for the consumption of distant places.
III. Book II. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour 1909
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Semlin and Belgrade are the entrepots of this trade.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842
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The deputy from Marseilles urged that the voyage from Dantzic, or even from Copenhagen to Marseilles, was too long for a ship to go and come with certainty in one season, considering the ice and the long nights; and that therefore, there is no avoiding the use of entrepots for the trade of Marseilles.
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However, with the spread of European entrepots in Southeast Asia, Brunei began to shrink in importance.
Brudirect News1 2009
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