customs
/ˈkʌs.təmz/ noun B1- The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods. · Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.
- 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.
Plural customs
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We discoursed a long time, madame, on different subjects; of Perugino, of Raphael, of manners, customs, of the famous aqua Tofana, of which they had told you, I think you said, that certain individuals in Perugia had preserved the secret.”
Oh, I assure you, sir, it was a touching spectacle to see these young creatures, destined by their talents for higher stations, toiling together, and through their unwillingness to change any of the customs of their paternal house, taking six years to accomplish what less scrupulous people would have effected in two or three.
But, pardon me, here are the health officers and the customs inspectors coming alongside.” And the young man went to the gangway.
He had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth, and once he had been beaten and left for dead; so he knew the manners and customs of men.
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