customs
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
customs/ˈkʌstəmz/
▶plural noun the official department that administers and collects the duties levied by a government on imported goods.
■ (also customs duties) the duties levied by a government on imported goods.
– origin ME: orig. in the sing., denoting a customary due paid to a ruler, later duty levied on goods on their way to market.
'customs' also found in these Oxford entries:
airside
- Anglomania
- antisocial
- bicultural
- bonded warehouse
- chokey
- clear
- comity
- culture
- custom house
- customs union
- custumal
- diplomatic bag
- dutiable
- ethnography
- ethos
- export
- folk
- folklore
- folksy
- free port
- Judaize
- Latinize
- local colour
- manifest
- mores
- nativism
- port
- rummage
- shipping bill
- tidewaiter
- tradition
- traveller's tale
- unsociable
- water bailiff
