free port
Americannoun
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a port or special section of a port where goods may be unloaded, stored, and shipped without payment of customs duties.
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a port open under equal conditions to all traders.
noun
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a port open to all commercial vessels on equal terms
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Also called: free zone. a zone adjoining a port that permits the duty-free entry of foreign goods intended for re-export
Etymology
Origin of free port
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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Odesa’s free port status financed its extraordinary architectural flowering in the 1800s and helped build its vibrant multiethnic society.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
Jonty Bloom reports from Teesside, which plans to become the UK's first free port, offering customs-free imports and hoping to bring back manufacturing jobs.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2018
Returning to its pre-revolutionary status of a free port, Vladivostok and the region is now subject to special custom and tax rules.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2015
Other collectors, she added, are starting to move their art to the free port of Luxembourg, where they can store it while the political process unfolds.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2015
When the writer was there, in 1862, beef was retailed at fourpence per pound, and Port Stanley being a free port, everything was very cheap.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
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