customs, customs duty, custom, impost
(noun) money collected under a tariff
Source: WordNet® 3.1
customs (plural customs)
(in the plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
(in the singular) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
customs
plural of custom
customs
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of custom
Source: Wiktionary
Cus"tom (ks"tm), n. Etym: [OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prosuus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume.]
1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.
2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison.
3. (Law)
Definition: Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. Wharton.
4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.] Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Shak. Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated.
– General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom.
– Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.
Syn.
– Practice; fashion. See Habit, and Usage.
Cus"tom, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. Accustom.]
1. To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] Gray.
2. To supply with customers. [Obs.] Bacon.
Cus"tom, v. i.
Definition: To have a custom. [Obs.] On a bridge he custometh to fight. Spenser.
Cus"tom, n. Etym: [OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom.]
Definition: 1 the customary toll,tax, or tribute. Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7.
2. pl.
Definition: Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
Cus"tom, v. t.
Definition: To pay the customs of. [Obs.] Marlowe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 January 2025
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