The office or position of collector of customs.
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释义 | society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth > custom-house officer (5) customary1494 The office or position of collector of customs. jerquer1706 ‘A custom-house officer, a searcher’ (Simmonds, 1858); in the London Custom House, A clerical officer who examines and checks a ship's papers, to… douanier1739 A custom-house officer (in France or, by extension, elsewhere). king's man1814 Scottish. A customs officer. Obsolete. rare. liquidators of vessels1884 liquidators of vessels (U.S.): a class of officers of the New York custom-house. |
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