Definition of Portal site

1. Noun. A site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet. "A portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc."

Exact synonyms: Portal
Generic synonyms: Internet Site, Site, Web Site, Website

Definition of Portal site

1. Noun. (Internet) a website with many features and useful content, but also with many links to other sites; its aim being that users would make it their home page ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Portal Site

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portagues
portajohn
portajohns
portal
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portal site (current term)
portal sites
portal system
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portals
portamenti
portamento
portamentos
portance
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portapack

Literary usage of Portal site

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventure Guide by Heather Stimmler-Hall (2004)
"... and New Zealand • Opodo.com: Flights from the UK • LastMinute.com: portal site for flights from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand Getting Around To the ..."

2. Transformation Not Automation: The E-government Challenge by Daniel Stedman Jones, Ben Crowe (2001)
"The Government's portal site www.service-public.fr states that: Its design is focused on answering users' needs and on simplifying users' relations with ..."

3. Governance in China by OECD (2005)
"... participants reported that they seldom visited the portal site of their city, because they did not think it provided very useful information or services ..."

4. Information and Communication Technologies and Rural Development by Philip Wade, Oecd (2001)
"name of the corresponding Internet portal site aiming to bring together access to all federal and state public services in a particularly user friendly way. ..."

5. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"In 2003 Donald Roos, working together with the Hague designer Robert-|an van Noort and coached by Erik van Blokland, created the typographic portal site ..."

6. Elements of Mining by George Joseph Young (1916)
"The portal site is selected so as to give the minimum |ength of adit. Where a shaft is used it is sunk in the lowest part of the pay streak or, ..."

7. Oecd Economic Surveys: Belgiu; 2007 by Oecd (2007)
"E-government services are available in Flanders through a single portal site. A road vignette for car traffic is expected to be put ..."

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