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free port en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A port or other area with relaxed jurisdiction of customs, tax rule or related national regulations.
   • Iris scanners, magnetic locks, and a security system known as Cerberus guard the freeport’s storerooms, whose contents are said to be insured for a hundred billion dollars, but the facility retains a blue-collar feel. […] A freeport offers few tax advantages and scarcely any security features that a standard bonded warehouse cannot provide. But Bouvier’s development in Singapore carried within it two ideas. The first is that freeports will become hubs in the sixty-billion-dollar international art market, destinations in themselves—places for scholars, restorers, insurers, art-finance specialists, consultants, and dealers. 2016 January 31, Sam Knight, “The Art-World Insider Who Went Too Far”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2016:

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Synonyms

entrepôt

Translations (13)

nb frihavn (port with relaxed customs) · nl vrijhaven (port with relaxed customs) · mr खुले बंदर (port with relaxed customs) · sv frihamn (port with relaxed customs) · pl wolny port (port with relaxed customs) · de Zollfreigebiet (port with relaxed customs) · id pelabuhan bebas (port with relaxed customs) · de Freihafen (port with relaxed customs) · pl port wolnocłowy (port with relaxed customs) · fi vapaasatama (port with relaxed customs) · fr port franc (port with relaxed customs) · es puerto franco (port with relaxed customs) · cmn 自由港 (port with relaxed customs)