treaty port
treaty port · treaty ports
A port city that was opened to foreign trade, usually consequent to the ratification…A port city that was opened to foreign trade, usually consequent to the ratification of an unequal treaty
Meaning
1 senses(historical)A port city that was opened to foreign trade, usually consequent to the ratification of an unequal treaty
a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty
Origin
From treaty + port.From treaty + port.
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Forms
plural: treaty ports| Singular | treaty port |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.