1. having a home port; based at a particular port as one's official home port
Usage: nautical; typically used of ships or naval vessels

1. past tense and past participle of homeport; to assign or establish a home port for a ship or vessel
Usage: nautical; transitive verb

Examples

• The aircraft carrier is homeported in San Diego.
• Several destroyers were homeported at the naval base.
• The Navy homeported the new submarine at Norfolk.
• Ships homeported in this harbor undergo regular maintenance.
• The fleet was homeported along the coast for strategic reasons.