customs
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkʌs.təmz/
Plural of custom. Perhaps influenced by or taken as a corruption of customhouse, from Middle English custome hous.
Nouncustoms
- (in the plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
- Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.
- (in the singular or uncountable) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
- Customs stopped us in the airport for an inspection.
- The process of going through customs checks at a border checkpoint.
- They usually don't care about customs, but she was clearly planning on selling most of it.
- The location at a border checkpoint where customs checks are carried out.
- French: douane, douanes
- German: Zoll
- Italian: dazio, gabella, imposte, accise, dogana
- Portuguese: alfândega (Brazil and Portugal), aduana (Brazil)
- Russian: таможенный сбор
- Spanish: aduana, arancel, derechos de aduana, aranceles
- plural form of custom
- Third-person singular simple present indicative of custom
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