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单词 duty-free
释义 duty-free, a., adv., and n.
[See duty 3 b.]
A. a. and adv.
a. Free of duty; exempt from payment of duty.
1689Order in Council 12 Dec. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2514/1 The Term allowed for the Importation of Provisions and Necessaries into Ireland Duty-free.1793T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 43 Where a treaty does not give the principal right of selling, the additional one of selling duty free cannot be given.1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 43 The Hanseatic traders..imported their goods duty-free.
b. Comb. duty-free shop, a shop at an airport, on a boat, etc., at which duty-free goods can be bought.
1965Which? May 150/1 Not all airports have duty-free shops.1969Ibid. Mar. 79/1 Some ‘duty-free’ shop prices are too high.1970New Yorker 16 May 44/2 Maybe I should get him a gift at the duty-free shop.1971P. Purser Holy Father's Navy iv. 22 We were already on the second of the two bottles we'd bought at the duty-free shop.
B. n. A duty-free article; freq. used in pl., esp. of cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, etc., bought and imported free of duty by those returning from or travelling abroad; also, a duty-free shop. colloq.
1958Times 16 Sept. 10/7 The meagre stub in his mouth had burnt out and I offered him one of my duty-frees.1980J. Gardner Garden of Weapons iii. xii. 349 I'm going to march you into the duty free at Tegel and make you buy them.1982Economist 21 Aug. 64/1 A sample shopping basket of duty-frees costs almost twice as much on LB-Färjorna lines as it does at..Schiphol airport.1985Sunday Times 10 Mar. 12/1 (Advt.), During the flight, our cabin staff will be coming round with drinks and Duty-Frees.
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