First-port-of-call Definition

noun
(nautical) The first port that a vessel calls in at after the start of a voyage.
After leaving from Southampton, our first port of call will be Gibraltar.
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(idiomatic) The first place to go to start a process.
When you move to a new country, your first port of call is often the local police.
To find the meaning of a word, your first port of call should be a decent dictionary.
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Noun

Singular:
first-port-of-call
Plural:
first ports of call

First-port-of-call Sentence Examples

  • Thorvald Nilsen with nine men, sailed for an oceanographical circumnavigation, with Buenos Aires as the first port of call.

  • He is, however, probably not the first port of call for anyone running a small business.

  • The first port of call is an elderly woman, quickly snuffed out in her bed.

  • Stavanger is the first port of call for northward-bound passenger steamers from Hull and Newcastle, and has regular services from all the Norwegian coast towns, from Hamburg, &c. A railway runs south along the wild and desolate coast of Jaederen, one of the few low and unprotected shores in Norway, the scene of many wrecks.

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