free port
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
But now there is a plan to transform and revitalise this area by turning it into a free port.
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
As fascism tore apart Europe, Shanghai’s status as a free port made it a magnet for refugees.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014
Walker answered that as he had made Trujillo a free port, the British claims were no longer valid.
From Gentlemen Rovers by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
