free port
noun
: an enclosed port or section of a port where goods are received and shipped free of customs duty
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As a free port with no capital controls, Hong Kong imposes no restrictions on foreign exchange transactions, inward or outward investments, or the repatriation of funds.
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Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
It’s located in a free port (a real thing where rich people can secure their valuables without paying taxes on them) at the Oslo airport.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
Perhaps Sunak, who had written a research paper on the value of post-Brexit free ports, was voting like a hedge fund manager.
—Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
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Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
It’s located in a free port (a real thing where rich people can secure their valuables without paying taxes on them) at the Oslo airport.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
Perhaps Sunak, who had written a research paper on the value of post-Brexit free ports, was voting like a hedge fund manager.
—Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
See All Example Sentences for free port
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Freeport
geographical name
Free·port
ˈfrē-ˌpȯrt 
1
city in northern Illinois west of Rockford population 25,638
2
village in southeastern New York on Long Island population 42,860
3
city in northwestern Bahamas on central Grand Bahama Island population 26,574
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