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Seaport vs Entrepot - What's the difference?

seaport | entrepot |

As nouns the difference between seaport and entrepot

is that seaport is a town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo while entrepot is .

seaport

English

Noun

(port) (en noun)
  • A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

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    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.