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gos·port

 (gŏs′pôrt′)
n.
A flexible speaking tube used for one-way communication between individual compartments or cockpits of an airplane.

[After Gosport, municipal borough of southern England, the site of the training facility of the British air force where it was invented.]
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Gosport

(ˈɡɒsˌpɔːt)
n
(Placename) a town in S England, in Hampshire on Portsmouth harbour: naval base since the 16th century. Pop: 69 348 (2001)
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POLICE yesterday launched a fresh investigation into the Gosport hospital deaths scandal and insisted that "all homicide charges including murder" were on the table.
A fresh criminal investigation into the Gosport hospital scandal - where hundreds of patients died after being given powerful painkillers - has been launched.
Yesterday, Mr Downing said: "The families of those affected by the events at Gosport War Memorial Hospital are at the heart of everything we do and I hope the news that we will now be carrying out a full investigation is of some comfort to them.
Yesterday, Mr Downing said: "The families of those affected by the events at Gosport War Memorial Hospital are at the heart of everything we do and I hope news that we will now be carrying out a investigation is of some comfort to them.
More than 450 people had their lives shortened at the Hampshire hospital, while another 200 were "probably" similarly given opioids between 1989 and 2000 without medical justification, according to the Gosport Independent Panel report released last year.
Only six weeks back Merthyr were eyeing a play off spot but a poor run of results had seen them contemplate a relegation battle had they lost at Gosport who currently sit in the final relegation place.
In 1944, Scots troops gearing up to hit the Normandy beaches left notes on a home-made poster a resident pinned on his gate in Gosport, near Portsmouth.
UK-based specialist inflation-protected very long income REIT LXi REIT plc (LSE: LXI) has exchanged contracts to provide forward funding for the pre-let development of a Travelodge hotel at Gosport in Hampshire for GBP 6.6m (USD 8.66m), the company said.
Officers carried out warrants in the early hours of Thursday morning in Southampton and Gosport in Hampshire after the incident at the racecourse near Chichester in West Sussex on May 5.