treaty port

1. 1.

   a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty

   Broaderport

Questions about treaty port

What does treaty port mean?

treaty port means "a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty".

Is treaty port a common word?

treaty port 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.