port of entry

plural ports of entry

1. A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.

   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

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   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

2. The location or mechanism by which a foreign entity gains entry into the body or self.

   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

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   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

   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