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customs
The Collaborative International Dictionary
customs \customs\ n. pl.
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money collected under a tariff; a duty imposed on imported goods.
Syn: customs duty, custom, impost.
the government department administering the collection of import tariffs. Used with as singular verb.
that area within an airport, sea port, or other border station where freight or the baggage of travellers is checked for dutiable materials or contraband; as, it took an hour to get through customs. [PJC] ||
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of custom English) 2 (context pluralonly English) The duty or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods. 3 (label en singular) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
WordNet
n. money collected under a tariff [syn: customs duty, custom, impost]
Wikipedia
Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country. The movement of people into and out of a country is normally monitored by immigration authorities, under a variety of names and arrangements. The immigration authorities normally check for appropriate documentation, verify that a person is entitled to enter the country, apprehend people wanted by domestic or international arrest warrants, and impede the entry of people deemed dangerous to the country.
Each country has its own laws and regulations for the import and export of goods into and out of a country, which its customs authority enforces. The import or export of some goods may be restricted or forbidden. In most countries, customs are attained through government agreements and international laws. A customs duty is a tariff or tax on the importation (usually) or exportation (unusually) of goods. Commercial goods not yet cleared through customs are held in a customs area, often called a bonded store, until processed. All authorized ports are recognized customs areas.
Customs is a six-part Irish documentary television series that examines the role of customs officers, focusing on their daily lives and their regular encounters with the illegal drug trade and other difficult situations. The series began airing on 14 September 2008 and concluded on 19 October 2008.
The series makers accessed customs officers' daily operations, allowing viewers to see the way the authorities deal with the importation of illegal substances. The series focuses on customs officers at Dublin Airport and Dublin Port as they target cigarette smuggling and illegal drug trade.
Customs is the fourth studio album by the American post-punk band Savage Republic, released in 1989 by Fundamental Records. It was reissued on Mobilization Records in 2002.
Usage examples of "customs".
These customs transferred to Christmas are to a great extent religious or magical rites intended to secure prosperity during the coming year, and there is also the familiar Christmas feasting, apparently derived in part from the sacrificial banquets that marked the beginning of winter.
December 17, but the festal customs were kept up for seven days, thus lasting until the day before our Christmas Eve.
I venture to hope that, with all its imperfections, it may be of some use to the more serious student, as a rough outline map of the field of Christmas customs, and as bringing together materials hitherto scattered through a multitude of volumes in various languages.
Its direct influence on Christmas customs has probably been little or nothing.
Modern research has tended to disprove the idea that the old Germans held a Yule feast at the winter solstice, and it is probable, as we shall see, that the specifically Teutonic Christmas customs come from a New Year and beginning-of-winter festival kept about the middle of November.
It is in these customs, and in secular mirth and revelry, not in Christian poetry, that we must seek for the expression of early lay feeling about Christmas.
None of these, except the feast of the Holy Innocents, have any special connection with the Nativity or the Infancy, and the popular customs connected with them will come up for consideration in our Second Part.
This class of customs has often, especially in the first millennium of our era, been the object of condemnations by ecclesiastics, and represents the old paganism which Christianity failed to extinguish.
The Church has played a double part, a part of sheer antagonism, forcing heathen customs into the shade, into a more or less surreptitious and unprogressive life, and a part of adaptation, baptizing them into Christ, giving them a Christian name and interpretation, and often modifying their form.
Christianized even in appearance, and obviously identical with heathen customs against which the Church thundered in the days of her youth.
In attempting to account for Christmas customs we must be mindful, therefore, of the tentative nature of the theories put forward.
Now as for them who on those days observe any heathen customs, it is to be feared that the name of Christian will avail them nought.
Roman customs either spread to Germany, or were paralleled there, is shown by a curious letter written in 742 by St.
Teutonic date, and is still in Germany an important folk-feast attended by many customs derived from the beginning-of-winter festival.
November, and show them in procession, suggesting, as far as may be, the probable origins of the customs observed.