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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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... instructions to communicate to him the result of his conferences with Dr Franklin, and that he himself had orders to impart to me this correspondence. He added, that the King was sincerely disposed to cultivate an amity with the States, that Denmark would make Christianstand a free port to the commerce of America, and give it every other advantage in Europe and the West Indies, which could be reasonably desired. He finished, by entreating me to make known these ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various


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