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Definition of outport in English: outportnoun ˈaʊtpɔːtˈoutˌpôrt 1A subsidiary port built near an existing one. larger ships and cargoes made it necessary to create a new port, or outport, at Avonmouth Example sentencesExamples - The chapter on ports scarcely mentions the slave trade, much less their work on the English outports.
- 1.1British Any British port other than London.
Example sentencesExamples - Antwerp also secured the dominance of London - the nearest estuarial port - over the other English ports, which became known by the end of the century simply as the outports.
- Its stranglehold on overseas trade, and therefore on most of the early banking and financial activity, was slow to ease; in consequence much of the trade from most of the outports had to be directed via London.
- Case studies of the shipping and trade of major outports like Liverpool and Hull have contributed valuable evidence to the on-going debate about the origins and character of the industrial revolution.
2Canadian (especially in Newfoundland) a small remote fishing village. Example sentencesExamples - The resettlement of Newfoundland's rural outports is a familiar, if troubling, scene for many Newfoundlanders.
- As much as it sounds like the name of an outport fishing village somewhere in Newfoundland, it is not an actual place but rather a state of being.
- And the wonderful work she was doing in her outport district would probably come to an end.
- His plot kicks in when, by a twist of fate and some benevolent blackmail, a young doctor is forced to leave Montreal and spend a mouth on the windswept outport.
- It's an east island accent, that Protestant strain you find in certain outports.
Definition of outport in US English: outportnounˈoutˌpôrt A subsidiary port built near an existing one. Example sentencesExamples - The chapter on ports scarcely mentions the slave trade, much less their work on the English outports.
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