Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The website it has financed - JunkScience. com - has been the main entrepot for almost every kind of climate-change denial that has found its way into the mainstream press. From Wordnik.com. [Outrage and Rant: More lies!] Reference
It is a great entrepot, a gigantic distributing point. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
It's close to the city of Juarez, a major smuggling entrepot. From Wordnik.com. [Sheriff To Texas Border Town: 'Arm Yourselves'] Reference
Lebanon's position as a Middle Eastern entrepot and banking hub. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
An historic entrepot city that is already a financial powerhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch] Reference
Dubai has long been a thriving entrepot at the edge of nothingness. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From Dubai] Reference
Now Phlegethon is a entrepot for all kinds offences and sleazy little trading outfits. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
The riches of Cush and Ethiopia would flow northwards to Thebes through this entrepot. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
Hong Kong has a free market, entrepot economy, highly dependent on international trade. From Wordnik.com. [The 2005 CIA World Factbook] Reference
There remained in stock in the manufactories 91,434,070 kilogrammes, and in the entrepot. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
“We want Weird Tales to be the trailblazing entrepot of the 21st century meet as it was for the 20th.”. From Wordnik.com. [In Tallahassee? Help Ann Celebrate Winning the Hugo (Mellow Mushroom, Saturday, Aug. 22)] Reference
FOR A THOUSAND YEARS SAFAGA HAD been the entrepot for all trade coming into the Upper Kingdom from the East. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
Taylor has successfully leveraged his country's historical role as a regional entrepot for smuggled diamonds. From Wordnik.com. [The Gems Of War] Reference
I know this is of importance to you here in Hong Kong, as the main entrepot for trade and investment with China. From Wordnik.com. [DFAT Speech: Australia, North East Asia and China - Opportunities in a Changing World] Reference
Winnipeg has been a great entrepot -- a commercial and transportation hub connecting Eastern and Western Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Building a New Conservative Home for Canadians: the P.C. Party at the Crossroads] Reference
Persuading the government of Singapore to pursue an entrepot EML Gateway could be easier, from a political perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch] Reference
South Africa, with its efficient transport infrastructure, would become an entrepot for India's trade with Africa and Latin America. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Arabian Nights gives specific clues to the site of a vast entrepot called Ubar that thrived on the ancient trade in frankincense. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Atlantis Of The Sands'] Reference
That is what makes Dubai successful as an entrepot, tourism hub and inclusive place to live; there is no one single norm of behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Hisham Wyne: Dubai, Sex, and Rampant Generalizations] Reference
The city of Montevideo became an important commercial entrepot; a pastoral economy evolved in the countryside, dominated by big ranchers. From Wordnik.com. [4. Uruguay] Reference
The quantity shipped from this entrepot is shown by the annexed returns, nearly all of which was grown and manufactured in the settlement. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Certainly, cinnamon was exported from Sri Lanka as early as 1400 BC and the root of the word itself is Hebrew, so Galle may have been the main entrepot for the spice. From Wordnik.com. [History of Sri Lanka] Reference
Information shall be given by me to all the merchants of these countries, and I will endeavor to induce them to resort to Mithenkot as a general entrepot of commerce. From Wordnik.com. [Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier] Reference
Singapore has an open entrepreneurial economy with strong service and manufacturing sectors and excellent international trading links derived from its entrepot history. From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Cancel your memberships and entrepot subscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Still serving as the main entrepot of the world's traffic, the. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
It had now become the principal entrepot and exchange of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Englishmen, who used the island of New Providence (Nassau) as a sort of entrepot. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete] Reference
That we have a right to some spot as an entrepot for our commerce, may be at once affirmed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
It was the resting-place for the Lombards and other Italians, the great entrepot for their merchandise. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Martinez de Pinillos, and the commerce of entrepot has been granted to the Havannah on the most advantageous conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The Hanse towns had their large entrepot for merchandise in Cannon Street, on the site of the present Cannon Street Station. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
Sacramento City had been laid out, lots were being rapidly sold, and the town was being built up as an entrepot to the mines. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete] Reference
On the supposition that this interruption will take place, you suggest Ostend as a convenient entrepot for the commerce between. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1] Reference
New Orleans, the entrepot of the Mississippi, that might be of use to her against English warships in the region of the West Indies. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch] Reference
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