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cus·tom

(kŭs′təm)

a. A traditional practice or usual way of doing something followed by a social group or people.

b. The tradition or body of such practices: The respect that is by custom accorded to the king.

a. A habitual practice of a person: my custom of reading a little before sleep. See Synonyms at habit.

b. Habitual manner or practice: I am not by custom a coffee drinker.

3. Law A common tradition or usage so long established that it has the force or validity of law.

4. Habitual patronage, as of a store: tried to obtain the custom of the wealthiest shoppers.

5. customs

a. Duties or taxes imposed on imported and, less commonly, exported goods.

b. (used with a sing. verb) The governmental agency authorized to collect these duties.

c. (used with a sing. verb) The place where goods and baggage entering a country are inspected by this agency: go through customs.

6. Tribute, service, or rent paid by a feudal tenant to a lord.

adj.

1. Made to order: custom suits.

2. Specializing in the making or selling of made-to-order goods: a custom tailor.

[Middle English custume, from Old French costume, from Vulgar Latin *cōnstūm(i)n-, alteration of Latin cōnsuētūdin-, oblique stem of cōnsuētūdō, custom, from cōnsuētus, past participle of cōnsuēscere, to accustom : com-, intensive prefix; see com- + suēscere, to become accustomed; see s(w)e- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

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customs

(ˈkʌstəmz)

n (functioning as singular or plural)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) duty on imports or exports

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the government department responsible for the collection of these duties

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the part of a port, airport, frontier station, etc, where baggage and freight are examined for dutiable goods and contraband

4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the procedure for examining baggage and freight, paying duty, etc

5. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (as modifier): customs officer.

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Noun

customs - money collected under a tariff

customs duty, impost, custom

tariff, duty - a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries"

ship money - an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense

customs

plural noun import charges, tax, duty, toll, tariff Some merchants imported goods without paying the full customs.

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Translations

رُسوم الجُمرَكرُسُوم جُمْرُكِيَّةمَكتَب الجُمرُك

celnícelní úřadcelniceclo

skikketoldvæsen

Zoll Zollabfertigung

τελωνείο

aduana(derechos de) aduana

tulli

douane coutumier

carina

tollheimtatollyfirvöld; innflutningstollur

dogana doganale dazi doganali daziario

関税

관세

colnicacolný

tull

ศุลกากร

gümrük

hải quan

海关关税

customs

[ˈkʌstəmz]

A. NPL → aduana fsing (also customs duty) → derechos mpl de aduana
to go through (the) customs → pasar por la aduana
Customs and Excise (Brit) → Aduanas fpl y Arbitrios

B. CPD customs clearance N → despacho m aduanero
customs declaration N → declaración f aduanera
customs house N → aduana f
customs inspection N → inspección f de aduanas
customs inspector N → inspector(a) m/f de aduanas, aduanero/a m/f
customs invoice N → factura f de aduana
customs officer N → oficial mf de aduanas, vista mf (de aduanas), aduanero/a m/f
customs post N → puesto m aduanero
Customs Service N (US) → aduana f, servicio m aduanero

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customs

[ˈkʌstəmz] npl (at airport, port, border) → douane f
to go through customs → passer la douane
to be stopped at customs → être arrêté(e) à la douaneCustoms and Excise [ˌkʌstəmzəndˈɛksaɪz] n (British) (= department) → Administration f des douanescustoms clearance n → dédouanement mcustoms declaration n → déclaration f en douane, déclaration f de douanecustoms duty n → droits mpl de douanecustoms officer customs official n → douanier/ière m/fCustoms Service n (US) (= department) → Administration f des douane

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customs

customs clearance

n → Zollabfertigung f; to get customs for something → etw zollamtlich abfertigen lassen

customs declaration

n → Zollerklärung f

customs duty

n → Zoll (→ abgabe f) m

customs house

n → Zollamt nt

customs inspection

n → Zollkontrolle f

customs officer

n → Zollbeamte(r) m, → Zollbeamtin f

customs union

n → Zollunion f

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customs

[ˈkʌstəmz] npl (also Customs) → dogana
to go through (the) customs → passare la dogana

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custom

(ˈkastəm) noun

1. what a person etc is in the habit of doing or does regularly. It's my custom to go for a walk on Saturday mornings; religious customs.

2. the regular buying of goods at the same shop etc; trade or business. The new supermarkets take away custom from the small shops.

ˈcustomary adjective

habitual; usually done etc. It is customary to eat turkey for Christmas dinner.

ˈcustomarily adverb

ˈcustomer noun

1. a person who buys from a shop etc. our regular customers.

2. used jokingly for a person. a strange customer.

ˈcustoms noun plural

1. (the government department that collects) taxes paid on goods coming into a country. Did you have to pay customs on those watches?; He works for the customs; (also adjective) customs duty.

2. the place at a port etc where these taxes are collected. I was searched when I came through customs at the airport.

customs

→ رُسُوم جُمْرُكِيَّة celní úřad skikke Zollabfertigung τελωνείο aduana tulli douane carina dogana 関税 관세 douane toll cło alfândega таможня tull ศุลกากร gümrük hải quan 海关

Customs & immigration (US)
Customs and passport control (UK) → Celní kontrola a pasová kontrola → Told og paskontrol → Zoll und Passkontrolle → Aduana y control de pasaportes → Tulli ja passintarkastus → Carinarnica i kontrola putovnica → Dogana e controllo passaporti → 税関・入国審査 → 세관, 입국 심사 → Douane en paspoortcontrole → Toll og passkontroll → Tull och passkontroll → Gümrük ve pasaport kontrolü → 海关与边防

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It has often been a matter of regret with me; for, going back, perhaps, to the days of the Protectorate, those papers must have contained many references to forgotten or remembered men, and to antique customs, which would have affected me with the same pleasure as when I used to pick up Indian arrow-heads in the field near the Old Manse.

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As you know," and I smiled, "I am not yet familiar with all the customs of the Tharks."

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This officer spoke to me in the language of Balnibarbi, which, by the force of much commerce, is generally understood in that town, especially by seamen and those employed in the customs. I gave him a short account of some particulars, and made my story as plausible and consistent as I could; but I thought it necessary to disguise my country, and call myself a Hollander; because my intentions were for Japan, and I knew the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to enter into that kingdom.

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A lot of you think and say, for I've heard you, 'There's this new Doctor hasn't been here so long as some of us, and he's changing all the old customs. Rugby, and the Schoolhouse especially, are going to the dogs.

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He was very well known to the customs officers of the coast; and as there was between these worthies and himself a perpetual battle of wits, he had at first thought that Dantes might be an emissary of these industrious guardians of rights and duties, who perhaps employed this ingenious means of learning some of the secrets of his trade.

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There is this analogy between the customs of the Lacedaemonians and the Cretans, the Helots cultivate the grounds

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I voted that women might vote, because I knew that they, the wives and mothers of the race, would vote John Barleycorn out of existence and back into the historical limbo of our vanished customs of savagery.

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Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.

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He had been shut up in the Custom House, and he was to he transferred to London the next day.

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He ordered at the same time that all the Apes be arranged in a long row on his right hand and on his left, and that a throne be placed for him, as was the custom among men.

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It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity.

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One custom of this country deserves to be remarked: when a stranger comes to a village, or to the camp, the people are obliged to entertain him and his company according to his rank.