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TREATY PORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treaty port mean? 

TREATY PORT (noun)
  The noun TREATY PORT has 1 sense:

1. a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treatyplay

  Familiarity information: TREATY PORT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TREATY PORT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("treaty port" is a kind of...):

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)


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