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Place briefly visited
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port of call
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Hong Kong has been an important port of call for the U.S. Navy. ▪ My next port of call was the City Records Department. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Housing is a natural first port of call . ▪ I couldn't wait to put my name ...
Wikipedia
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Port of Call is a 2015 Hong Kong crime thriller film written, edited and directed by Philip Yung and starring Aaron Kwok , Elaine Jin and Patrick Tam . The film is based on a real murder case where a dismembered corpse of a murdered 16-year-old female prostitute ...
WordNet
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n. any port where a ship stops except its home port
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies 2 (context figuratively English) A place visited.
Usage examples of port of call.
The next port of call was Jupiter, and that presented problems of its own.
Her last port of call had been Dublin, but she had borne no cargo of any description upon her capture, had rather been in ballast.
Afterward Jason stood up and raised his voice to inform the crew that their next port of call was going to be the island of Lemnos.
True enough that Captain Vestrit never tolerated slackness in any man, but he'd simply be rid of him at the next port of call.
It wasn't until the sixth port of call that Danny had even a sniff of something promising.
But that was only one of the number of odd things that had happened on Rhysgaat, which had been the Groups last scheduled port of call before they slipped off on the long, curving run that had taken them finally into and halfway through an alien cluster of the Milky Way.
But that was only one of the number of odd things that had happened on Rhysgaat, which had been the Group's last scheduled port of call before they slipped off on the long, curving run that had taken them finally into and halfway through an alien cluster of the Milky Way.