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单词 duty-free
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duty-freeadj.adv.n.

Etymology: See duty n. 3c.
A. adj. and adv.
Free of duty; exempt from payment of duty.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [adverb] > not liable to duty
custom-freec1450
duty-free1689
1689 Order in Council 12 Dec. in London Gaz. No. 2514/1 The Term allowed for the Importation of Provisions and Necessaries into Ireland Duty-free.
1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 43 Where a treaty does not give the principal right of selling, the additional one of selling duty free cannot be given.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 412 The Hanseatic traders..imported their own goods duty free.
B. n.
A duty-free article; frequently used in plural, esp. of cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, etc., bought and imported free of duty by those returning from or travelling abroad; also, a duty-free shop. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > duty-free article
duty-free1958
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop
show shop1787
lock-up shop1795
cash-store1811
boat shop1813
slaughter shop1841
slaughterhouse1851
ticket-shop1851
charity shop1853
magic shop1853
company store1872
Army and Navy1878
five-and-ten1880
farthing-shop1889
funeral home1895
goodwill1916
shop-within-(a)-shop1916
cash and carry1917
Piggly Wiggly1917
poverty shop1948
discount house1949
anchor1960
box store1976
mom-and-pop1976
op shop1978
duty-free1980
pound shop1983
pop-up2000
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > duty-free shop
duty-free1980
1958 Times 16 Sept. 10/7 The meagre stub in his mouth had burnt out and I offered him one of my duty-frees.
1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons iii. xii. 349 I'm going to march you into the duty free at Tegel and make you buy them.
1982 Economist 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.
1985 Sunday Times 10 Mar. 12/1 (advt.) During the flight, our cabin staff will be coming round with drinks and Duty-Frees.

Compounds

duty-free shop n. a shop at an airport, on a boat, etc., at which duty-free goods can be bought.
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1965 Which? May 150/1 Not all airports have duty-free shops.
1969 Which? Mar. 79/1 Some ‘duty-free’ shop prices are too high.
1970 New Yorker 16 May 44/2 Maybe I should get him a gift at the duty-free shop.
1971 P. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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