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port of entry en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.
   • For the Japanese, continued Russian control of Ying-k'ou was not simply a legal matter. Since Ying-k'ou was the major port of entry for Japanese goods into Manchuria, the Russian occupation threatened to undermine Japanese commercial interests. 1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
   • The Motor Carrier Act that opened the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexican border shows that on average 46.4. local trucking and courier service establishments left each port of entry. 2014, John T. Jones, The Economic Impact of Transborder Trucking Regulations, →ISBN:
2. The location or mechanism by which a foreign entity gains entry into the body or self.
   • Other psychoanalytically inspired mother-baby psychotherapeutic approaches, such as that practiced by Serge Lebovici and his colleagues in Paris, freely use the transference as a source of shared clinical focus and as a port of entry into the system. 1995, Daniel N. Stern, The Motherhood Constellation: A Unified View of Parent-infant Psychotherapy, →ISBN, page 128:
   • Furthermore when the bacteria become pathogenic, the nasopharynx is the port-of-entry of the infection. 2010, C. A. Genco, Lee Wetzler, Lee M. Wetzler, Neisseria: Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogenesis, →ISBN, page 79:
   • As it was becoming apparent in the development of Single port Access that we could begin applying the one port of entry approach to multiple procedures, applying it to cholecystectomies was simply a matter of time. 2011, Andrea Tinelli, Laparoscopic Entry, →ISBN:

Forms

Translations (16)

fi sisäänkäynti (location or mechanism) · fi saapumispaikka (harbor, airport or border crossing) · fi rajanylityspaikka (harbor, airport or border crossing) · de Eintrittspforte (location or mechanism) · fi tuloväylä (location or mechanism) · cmn 入境港 (harbor, airport or border crossing) · de Einfallstor (harbor, airport or border crossing) · id pelabuhan masuk (harbor, airport or border crossing) · fi tulopaikka (location or mechanism) · fi maahantulopaikka (harbor, airport or border crossing) · de Eintrittspunkt (harbor, airport or border crossing) · de Einfallspforte (harbor, airport or border crossing) · de Zugang (harbor, airport or border crossing) · fi maahantuontipaikka (harbor, airport or border crossing) · km ច្រកចូល (harbor, airport or border crossing) · km ច្រកចូល (location or mechanism)