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Depot vs Entrepot - What's the difference?

depot | entrepot |

As nouns the difference between depot and entrepot

is that depot is a storage facility, in particular, a warehouse while entrepôt is a warehouse, depot.

depot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
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    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot , a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • (US) A bus or railway station.
  • A place where military recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
  • (card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

    • Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    entrepot

    English

    (wikipedia entrepôt)

    Alternative forms

    * entrepot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, 20th Oct 2012, Immigration: The Tories’ barmiest policy
    • 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.