customs
NounUS[kuhs-tuhmz]/ˈkʌstəmz/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- money collected under a tariffSynonyms: customs dutycustomimpostType of duty, tariffKinds ship money
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Translations
Noun import duties, customs authority
- Spanish
- aduana
- French
- douane
- German
- Zoll
- Italian
- dogana
- Portuguese
- alfândega
- Turkish
- gümrük
- Russian
- тамо́жня tamóžnja
- Arabic
- جُمْرُك jumruk
- Chinese
- 海关 hǎiguān
- Japanese
- 税関 zeikan
30 more languages
- Dutch
- douane
- Polish
- cło
- Swedish
- tull
- Greek
- τελωνείο teloneío
- Korean
- 세관 segwan
- Indonesian
- bea cukai
- Vietnamese
- hải quan
- Hungarian
- vám
- Portuguese (PT)
- alfândega
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 海關 hǎiguān
- Albanian
- doganë
- Catalan
- duana
- Czech
- clo
- Danish
- told
- Esperanto
- dogano
- Estonian
- toll
- Finnish
- tulli
- Georgian
- საბაჟო sabažo
- Hebrew
- מֶכֶס mékhes
- Icelandic
- tollur
- Latvian
- muita
- Lithuanian
- muitinė
- Norwegian
- toll
- Romanian
- vamă
- Scottish Gaelic
- cusbainn
- Serbo-Croatian
- carina
- Slovak
- colnica
- Slovenian
- carina
- Swahili
- ushuru wa forodha
- Welsh
- tollau
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
customs plural noun
1. money collected under a tariff; a duty imposed on imported goods. Syn. — customs duty, custom, impost.
2. the government department administering the collection of import tariffs. Used with as singular verb.
3. that area within an airport, sea port, or other border station where freight or the baggage of travellers is checked for dutiable materials or contraband; as, it took an hour to get through customs.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors, WordNet 1.5