"first port of call" meaning in English

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      "form": "first ports of call",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After leaving from Southampton, our first port of call will be Gibraltar."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The first port that a vessel calls in at after the start of a voyage"
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        "(nautical) The first port that a vessel calls in at after the start of a voyage"
      ],
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        "nautical",
        "transport"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When you move to a new country, your first port of call is often the local police."
        },
        {
          "text": "To find the meaning of a word, your first port of call should be a decent dictionary."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The first place to go to start a process."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) The first place to go to start a process."
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "After leaving from Southampton, our first port of call will be Gibraltar."
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        "The first port that a vessel calls in at after the start of a voyage"
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        "(nautical) The first port that a vessel calls in at after the start of a voyage"
      ],
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        "nautical",
        "transport"
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          "text": "When you move to a new country, your first port of call is often the local police."
        },
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          "text": "To find the meaning of a word, your first port of call should be a decent dictionary."
        }
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        "The first place to go to start a process."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) The first place to go to start a process."
      ],
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