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/pɔrt əv ˈɛntri/ Listen

noun

Port n.

A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively. "Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads." "We are in port if we have Thee."

In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.

Free port. See under Free.

Port bar. (Naut,)

(a)

A boom. See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3.

(b)

A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port.

Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor.

Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise.

Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port.

Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

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Etymology of 'Port of entry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Port of entry" Quotes from Famous Books

... September, bidding a regretful farewell to M. Rimareau and his delightful moonlight talks, they set sail for Papeete, the capital and port of entry of the Society Group—most beautiful of all the islands of the Pacific. But, though they were entranced with the grandeur and charm of its scenery—its towering cliffs, leaping cascades, and green, palm-fringed ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez