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duty-free

/doo-tee-free, dyoo-/US // ˈdu tiˈfri, ˈdyu- //

免税,免税的,免关税,免疫

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : free of customs duty or tax on imported or exported goods: duty-free cargo; merchandise shipped duty-free.
    • : pertaining to or selling goods for import or export free of the usual customs duty: a duty-free shop at the airport.

Examples

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

  • Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.

  • If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.

  • And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.

  • The voice of the orator peculiarly should be free from studied effects, and responsive to motive.