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Port of entry   /pɔrt əv ˈɛntri/   Listen
Port of entry

noun
1.
A port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise.  Synonym: point of entry.






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"Port of entry" Quotes from Famous Books



... divided between a desire to gird at the doctor, or to soothe his civic pride. "But I'll confess I expected a town somewhat larger, for the port of entry of the territory ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman

... stopped abruptly, and with its last note he found himself alone, for the youths about him had precipitated themselves into the room to secure their partners for the next cotillon. The enterprising Hamp came in through the window, by which port of entry the orchestra departed in search of the reviving pail on ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

... king's service.—8. The English merchants shall not be hindered from selling their goods to whom they please, nor from sending them to other factories; neither shall they pay any more in this case than has been already paid at the port of entry.—9. Whatever goods the English may purchase in any part of the dominions of the Mogul, shall be allowed to be transmitted to the ports, without any hindrance or molestation, and shall pay no other duty than may be agreed upon at the port of shipping.—10. No goods already entered at ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr

... Congress adjourned on March 4, 1849, all that had been done toward establishing some form of government for the immense domain acquired by the treaty with Mexico was to extend over it the revenue laws and make San Francisco a port of entry."—Bancroft's "Utah," ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... port of entry of our Freedom. Men brought it in a box of alabaster And broke the box and spilled it to the West, Here on the granite ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand



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