| 单词 | custom house officer |
| 释义 | > as lemmascustom house officer custom house officer n. now historical a person whose job is to collect customs duties and prevent illegal or contraband goods from entering or leaving a country; = customs officer n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 1d(b). ΚΠ 1654 S. E. Toutch-stone Mony & Commerce 21 Some of them by report using to carry it for Holland, being never visited [by] the Custom-house Officers. 1733 in Statutes at Large (1811) IX. 311 The Ship or Vessel wherein they shall be imported..may be seized by..any Customs House Officer. 1880 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 30 Apr. 1903/2 It [sc. the port and city of Nanaimo] had only one Customs-house officer, when it was fairly entitled to two or three. 1912 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 82 A bustling German customs house officer clambered aboard and we went through the formalities of civilized travel. 2004 Bristol Post (Nexis) 14 Sept. 41 They started to throw stones at the windows and matters would have got out of hand, save for the fact that some of the servants and the Custom House officers made a counter attack. < as lemmas |
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