freeport

plural freeports

1. alternativeAlternative form of free port.

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   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

   Freeports, which can be airports and maritime ports, are a special kind of port where normal tax and customs regulations do not apply. [...] Businesses operating inside the designated areas in and around the port can manufacture goods using these imports and add value, before exporting again without ever facing full tariffs or procedures. Should the goods move out of the freeport into another part of the country, then they must go through the full import process - including paying any tariffs.

   2021 March 24, “Network News: What is a freeport?”, in RAIL, number 927, page 15

1. A city on Grand Bahama in the Bahamas.
2. A village in Nova Scotia, Canada.First known use 1865

   Synonyms: Lower Cove

3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California.
   2. A small city in Walton County, Florida.
   3. A city, the county seat of Stephenson County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Indiana.
   5. An unincorporated community in Harper County, Kansas.
   6. A town in Cumberland County, Maine.

      Portland also makes a good base from which to explore the rest of southern coastal Maine, from the shops of Kennebunkport to the sprawling L.L. Bean flagship store in Freeport to the charming towns of Bath, Rockland and Camden further up Route 1.

      2024 June 24, Brandon Griggs, “This coastal culinary hub offers a ‘big-city feel in a small-city package’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024

   7. A village in Barry County, Michigan.
   8. A small city in Stearns County, Minnesota.
   9. A large village in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York.
   10. A village in Harrison County, Ohio.
   11. A borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
   12. A city in Brazoria County, Texas.
   13. An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.