entrepot

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

entrepot
    n 1: a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported
         without paying import duties; "Bahrain has been an entrepot
         of trade between Arabia and India since the second
         millennium BC" [syn: {entrepot}, {transshipment center}]
    2: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
       docks" [syn: {storehouse}, {depot}, {entrepot}, {storage},
       {store}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

entrepot \en`tre*pot"\, Entrepot \En`tre*p[^o]t"\, n. [F.]
   1. A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported
      with paying import duties; a mart or place where
      merchandise is deposited; as, an entrep[^o]t for shipping
      goods in transit.

   Syn: transshipment center.
        [WordNet 1.5]

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

ENTREPOT. A warehouse; a magazine where goods are deposited, and which are 
again to be removed.

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