thriving port

collocation in English

meaningsofthrivingandport

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thriving
adjective
uk
/ˈθraɪ.vɪŋ/us
/ˈθraɪ.vɪŋ/
growing, developing, or ...
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port
noun
uk
/pɔːt/us
/pɔːrt/
a town by the sea or by a river that has a harbour, or the ...
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(Definition ofthrivingandportfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Increasingly, as activities normally associated with a healthy,thrivingportdiminish, there is bound to be speculation about its future.
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A oncethrivingportis now almost exclusively located in the north end of the city.
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If one casts one's mind back to those halcyon days, it was the mostthrivingportin the fifteenth century.
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It was a busy,thrivingportuntil about 10 years ago.
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He recognises the problem in his constituency, which has both aggregate producers and athrivingport.
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All these aspects make athrivingport.
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It was once a small andthrivingport, but is now more popular with tourists and horses.
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Two years after its establishment the record dated from 1447 shows the cosmopolitan composition of thisthrivingporttown.
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The present village grew around the harbour in the 19th century, when it temporarily was athrivingport.
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The city added electricity, telephone service, sewer facilities, rail connections, some paved streets and sidewalks, new banks, athrivingport, and a new public school.
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