port of call

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   any port where a ship stops except its home port

   Broaderseaport

Questions about port of call

What does port of call mean?

port of call means "any port where a ship stops except its home port".

Is port of call a common word?

port of call is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.