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Free port   /fri pɔrt/   Listen
Free port

noun
1.
An area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties.  Synonym: free zone.
2.
A port open on equal terms to all commercial vessels.





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"Free port" Quotes from Famous Books



... the port of Singapore is a free port, and the trade thereof open to ships and vessels of every nation, free of duty, equally and alike to all." It was a hatred of their monopolist policy which had especially inspired Raffles in his opposition to the Dutch. In respect of the question of the authority of his ...
— A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold
... free port, and when a man commeth within the castles, presently the Ermyn sends aboord to haue one come and speake with him to know what goods are aboord: and then hee will set guards aboord the ship to see all the goods discharged. And then ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt
... to the stipulations contained in this convention, two other objects remain to be accomplished between the contracting powers: First. The designation and establishment of a free port at each ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... to life: the Confraternity of St. Medard presenting their masque of Hercules; the claret colored walls adorned with gold cinquefoils of Demetrios' court; his pavilion with porticoes of Andalusian copper; Theodoret's capital, Megaris, ruddy with bonfires; the free port of Narenta with its sails spread for the land of pagans; the lichen-incrusted glade in the Forest of Columbiers; gardens with the walks sprinkled with crocus and vermilion and powdered mica ... all are at once real and bright with unreality, rayed with the splendor of ...
— Domnei • James Branch Cabell et al


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