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Date "FREEPORT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Freeport (Sir Andrew). A London merchant, industrious, generous, and of great good sense. He was one of the members of the hypothetical club under whose auspices the Spectator was published. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Transportation | Zone where goods can be manufactured and/or stored without payment of their relevant duties and taxes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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United States of America:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freeport."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Desert of Maine" at Freeport, Maine. Top branches of apple tree showing above sand. It is reported that three twigs blossom in the spring. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Desert of Maine. Freeport, Maine. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 60 foot high sulphur vat, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sulphur vat 60 feet high, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Loading box cars with sulphur, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Railroad cars loaded with sulphur, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Freeport Sulphur Co., 60 foot high vat of sulphur, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Melted sulphur from the wells pouring into relay station, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Willow Brook Estates, Freeport, Long Island. Arch to dinette and living room. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | The Bahamas | Both Nassau and Freeport have a television station. (references) |
Mauritius | Freeport operations may be 100% foreign-owned and use offshore banking facilities. (references) | |
The Bahamas | The Hong Kong-based firm, Hutchison Whampoa, has opened a container port in Freeport. (references) | |
Trade | Bahamas | Free Trade Zones: The City of Freeport on the island of Grand Bahama is a major free trade zone. (references) |
Mauritius | Mauritius Freeport: The Mauritius Freeport was created in 1992 as a regional warehousing, distribution, and marketing center. (references) | |
Mauritius | The deadline for the elimination of all tariff barriers among all member countries is October 30, 2001. COMESA is increasingly seen as an important market for products from the Mauritius Freeport. (references) | |
Travel | Bahamas | Nassau has two large hospitals and there is one in Freeport. (references) |
Bahamas | Business Infrastructure: Both Nassau and Freeport boast a wide variety of excellent hotels and resorts. (references) | |
Bahamas | As major resorts, both Nassau and Freeport have a wide variety of restaurants ranging from local franchises of American fast-food chains to expensive five-star gourmet places. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bahamas | However, human rights advocates assert that the Port Authority has allowed the Hong Kong-based company Hutchinson-Whampoa, which now owns the harbor, airport, and many major hotels in Freeport, to discourage unions. (references) |
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| "FREEPORT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "FREEPORT" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Freeport Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Freeport, FL (city, FIPS 24825) 2. Freeport, IL (city, FIPS 27884) 3. Freeport, KS (city, FIPS 24725) 4. Freeport, ME (CDP, FIPS 26490) 5. Freeport, MI (village, FIPS 30580) 6. Freeport, MN (city, FIPS 22652) 7. Freeport, NY (village, FIPS 27485) 8. Freeport, OH (village, FIPS 28798) 9. Freeport, PA (borough, FIPS 27784) 10. Freeport, TX (city, FIPS 27420) 11. Freeport , Bahamas |
Expression using "FREEPORT": New Freeport. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FREEPORT": freeport-mcmoran. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "FREEPORT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Freihafen (bonded port, free port, free trade zone). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eeportfray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"FREEPORT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ferrefort. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: ferret, perter, porter, prefer, pretor, report, retore. | |
-3 letters: fetor, forte, freer, frere, frore, ofter, peter, refer, repot, repro, retro, roper, topee, toper, trope. | |
-4 letters: feet, fere, fete, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, peer, pert, poet, pore, port, pree, prof, reef, reft, repo, rete, rope, rote, tope, tore, torr, tree, tref, trop. | |
-5 letters: eft, ere. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: ferrotype, perforate, profiteer. | |
+2 letters: ferrotypes, perforated, perforates, profiteers. | |
+3 letters: imperforate, profiteered, profiterole, proliferate. | |
+4 letters: outperformed, performative, preformatted, preformulate, professorate, profiteering, profiteroles, proliferated, proliferates, waterproofed, waterproofer, weatherproof. | |
+5 letters: performatives, preformulated, preformulates, professorates, professoriate, proliferative, waterproofers, weatherproofs. | |
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