Definition of entrepôt

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en·tre·pôt    (ntr-p) KEY 

NOUN:

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

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