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customs

US // (ˈkʌstəmz) //

习俗,海关,风俗,风俗习惯

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    • : duty on imports or exports
    • : the government department responsible for the collection of these duties
    • : the part of a port, airport, frontier station, etc, where baggage and freight are examined for dutiable goods and contraband
    • : the procedure for examining baggage and freight, paying duty, etc
    • : customs officer

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Examples

  • By volume, customs data shows, Australian wine makes up roughly a quarter of all China’s wine imports.

  • I wave goodbye to customs, dash for the Mozambican side of the border, and the car is free.

  • A new automated system for the collection of customs duties and taxes on imported phones and other electronic devices in Cameroon is not being welcomed.

  • China’s top vaccine official mentioned front-line medical workers and customs officials when he first announced the program, implying these high-risk groups had been prioritized to receive the still-experimental vaccines.

  • Last year’s accord gave Northern Ireland the same trade rules as the EU to avoid customs checks at the land border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, a key part of the Good Friday Agreement two decades go that ended years of bloodshed.

  • “Times, people, and places have changed, along with different lifestyles and customs,” Maria says.

  • “The acts [are] at odds with morality and customs that are penalized by Dominican laws,” the letter also read.

  • They also hired an attorney and filed a federal tort claim against Customs and Border Protection for personal injury.

  • The aircraft stops once to clear South African customs, then flies on to Botswana.

  • Customs and Border Protection would prefer the term “humanitarian campaign.”

  • He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

  • What New France is, the nature of the country, what tribes inhabit it, and their customs.

  • You cannot all at once eradicate the deep-rooted customs and habits of any people, whoever they may be.

  • Most men in England agreed that such pleasant customs had been tolerated long enough.

  • The Spanish sailors were much interested in the strange customs and festivals of the brown people.