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Entrepot

1. A port where goods can be imported from a ship, stored, and then re-exported or transported to their final destination.

2. More generally, a warehouse.
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The end ot the Federation came on top of other developments which threatened Singapore's very survival: the withdrawal of Btitish forces east of Suez and the disappearance ot the old entrepot economy.
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When Britain arrived in what was then the all-Indian state of Bengal the princely entrepot, whose centre was Calcutta, was the richest place in the world.
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