Definition of homeport
transitive verb
:to provide with or assign to a home port
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The 130,000-ton Dream, which moved to New Orleans in April 2014, is the largest to homeport year-round in New Orleans.
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Often overshadowed by San Diego’s large stable of surface warships, five Los Angeles-class attack submarines are homeported at Point Loma and two more are slated to join them by 2021.
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The SBX was scheduled to be homeported in Adak, Alaska, in early 2006.
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First Known Use of homeport
1940
home port
noun
Definition of home port
:the port from which a ship hails or from which it is documented
First Known Use of home port
1794
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