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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 661 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENTREPOT (a
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French word, from the
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Lat. interpositum, that which is placed between)  , a storehouse or
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magazine for the temporary storage of goods, provisions, &c.; also a
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place where goods, which are not allowed to pass into a
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country
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duty
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free, are stored under the superintendence of the
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custom
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house authorities till they are re-exported . In a looser sense, any
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town which has a considerable distributive
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trade is called an
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entrepot . The word is also used attributively to indicate the
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kind of trade carried on in such towns .

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