outport
IPA: ˈaʊtpɔrt
noun
- A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port; it may be a distant one or a nearby auxiliary one.
- (Newfoundland, Labrador) Any city, town, or village having a port, other than the main port of St. John's.
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Examples of "outport" in Sentences
- The term outport has sometimes been used in a derogatory sense.
- Sometimes described as an outport within the city of St. John's.
- A century later the north end of the island became a fishing outport.
- Primorsk evolved in the 20th century as an outport for the town of Vyborg.
- She came to Newfoundland as a district nurse under the outport nursing scheme.
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