Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tax levied on merchandise imported from or (in some countries) exported to a foreign country. See
custom , n., 4.
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Examples
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The victims had gathered at a memorial service for a slain leader of a war-veterans group -- an organization that has, thanks to special tax and customs-duty exemptions, effectively become a front for a lucrative import business.
Murder In Moscow 2008
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Ironically, the firm they were found to have taken payments from, the Swiss Societe Generale de Surveillance, had been hired to combat another sort of corruption: customs-duty evasion.
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Dr K'yengo's men were very anxious to accompany us, even telling the king, if he would allow the road to be opened to their countrymen, all would hongo, or pay customs-duty to him; but the close, narrow-minded king could not be persuaded.
The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845
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Recognisances by reason of their forreine tenure against their will: and that they be free of all their owne wines for which they do trauaile of our right prise, [Footnote: Prisage -- one cask in ten, on wine, was the first customs-duty levied in England.] that is to say, of one tunne before the mast, and of another behind the maste.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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66Prisage — one cask in ten, on wine, was the first customs-duty levied in England.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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