English Dictionary

entrepôt

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɑntɹəˈpəʊ/

名詞

A warehouse, depot. / A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution. / A point of entry for people, especially immigrants, into a city or country.

日本語の意味

倉庫、物資の保管所としての場所 / 商業拠点、商品の再加工や配送が行われる施設 / 人々、特に移民が都市や国に入るための玄関口

The cargo was temporarily stored in the coastal entrepôt before being redistributed inland.

貨物は内陸へ再配分される前に、沿岸の倉庫に一時保管されていました。

意味（1）

A warehouse, depot.

意味（2）

A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution.

South of Taichung is the old port town of Lu-kang. Here again we come face to face with Taiwan’s past, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Founded in the seventeenth century, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Lu-kang was an important port city with strong ties to Ch’uan-chou—the eighteenth-century classic but declining entrepôt of southern Min Fukien.

意味（3）

A point of entry for people, especially immigrants, into a city or country.

The country has, in effect, installed a “keep out” sign over the white cliffs of Dover. Even as Mr Cameron defends the City of London as a global financial centre, and takes planeloads of business folk on foreign trips, his government ratchets up measures that would turn an entrepôt into a fortress.

entrepôts （ plural ）