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depot 1. a storehouse or warehouse 2. Chiefly Brit a building used for the storage and servicing of buses or railway engines 3. US and Canadian a. a bus or railway station b. (as modifier): a depot manager 4. (of a drug or drug dose) designed for gradual release from the site of an injection so as to act over a long period How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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That Singapore would serve as a base for a variety of commercial activities (chapter VII), including smuggling of contraband, is no surprise, given the city-state's historical role as a trading entrepot at the heart of Southeast Asian commerce. The roots of controversy over episcopal control of the province's flourishing entrepot were deep-seated and represented part of a wider on-going, adamantine struggle between rival Catholic traditions. Alexandria was the focus of the Hellenic world, by far the largest city before the rise of Rome: the Greek-speaking world's greatest entrepot and its intellectual powerhouse. |
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