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plural homeports
The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered). examples
third-person singular simple present homeports, present participle homeporting, simple past and past participle homeported
To assign a vessel a port to act as its home. quotations examples
The good news from the Ad Hoc Committee for a Safe Boston Harbor is the Navy has decided not to homeport the Iowa Battleship Task Force, complete with sea-launch cruise nukes, in Boston Harbor. The bad news from the Committee is the Navy has offered Boston two frigates armed with tactical nuclear weapons as a "booby prize."
1983 August 20, Sue Hyde, “Boston Harbor Escapes Big Guns”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 2