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
It may be that a free port and international status for the town, with Italian sovereignty in cultural questions, would best serve the Allied and European cause, especially during the years of transition.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2020
He suggests such a government could "carve out a duty free port of call", and be able to do business with other nations.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 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
I have seen mentioned the possibility of the conquest and annexation of the free port of Hamburg by a victorious British fleet.
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
