port of entry

Noun

port of entry (plural ports of entry)

1. A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.
   • For the Japanese, continued Russian control of Ying-k'ou was not simply a legal matter. Since Ying-k'ou was the major port of entry for Japanese goods into Manchuria, the Russian occupation threatened to undermine Japanese commercial interests.1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212
   • The Motor Carrier Act that opened the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexican border shows that on average 46.4. local trucking and courier service establishments left each port of entry.2014, John T. Jones, The Economic Impact of Transborder Trucking Regulations, →ISBN
2. The location or mechanism by which a foreign entity gains entry into the body or self.
   • As it was becoming apparent in the development of Single port Access that we could begin applying the one port of entry approach to multiple procedures, applying it to cholecystectomies was simply a matter of time.2011, Andrea Tinelli, Laparoscopic Entry, →ISBN
   • Furthermore when the bacteria become pathogenic, the nasopharynx is the port-of-entry of the infection.2010, C. A. Genco, Lee Wetzler, Lee M. Wetzler, Neisseria: Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogenesis, →ISBN, page 79