Customs Definition

noun
Taxes imposed on imports and exports; the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from imposing taxes on goods exported from a state. Also called duties.
Webster's New World Law
The agency or procedure for collecting such taxes, or the place where they are collected.
Webster's New World Law

Plural form of custom.

The Ancient Egyptian culture had many distinctive and interesting beliefs and customs.
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(plural only) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.

We had to pay customs of £200 on all the wine we took back from France.
Wiktionary

(singular) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.

We got pulled over by customs on our way back from France - we only had 200 bottles of wine - it was so unfair.
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Antonyms:
  • phenomenons
  • rarities
  • departures
  • deviations
  • shifts
  • differences
  • divergences
  • irregularities
  • strangenesses

Customs Sentence Examples

  • I came to learn the customs of your people.

  • Similar customs seem to have existed among the Italian races.

  • From the date when Mr Hart took up his duties at Peking, in 1863, he unceasingly devoted the whole of his energies to the work of the department, with the result that the revenue grew from upwards of eight million taels to nearly twenty-seven million, collected at the thirty-two treaty ports, and the customs staff, which in 1864 numbered 200, reached in 1901 a total of 57 0 4.

  • There are other special customs recognized in various localities, e.g.

  • Taxation laws must deal with only one subject of taxation; but customs and excise duties may, respectively, be dealt with together.

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