customhouse
- noun
- /ˈkʌstəmˌhaʊs/
- Archaic
:
aduana
- The travelers went to the customhouse to declare their goods before entering the country.
Examples
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Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance.
Academic text (1993) -
The massive rectangle of the former customhouse took up a whole city block.
Fiction book (1992) -
It rattled through Capitol Square on the way to the new building that had been the customhouse before Virginia left the Union.
Fiction book (1992) -
What started as a "little cigar factory" grew quickly into Mexico's largest and spread laterally to include a customhouse brokerage in the 1890s.
Academic text (1994) -
Franklin uses the tenets of populationist theory as well as customhouse accounts, land availability maps, and demographic data to compare the potential proceeds from trade with the island of Guadeloupe and with French Canada.
Academic text (2016) -
After two days, the southeast gale died down and they lit south, running for home, but ill weather blew hard down from the north, and the two boats soon lay at anchor in Customhouse Cove with snow freezing against the pilothouse windows.
Fiction book (1996) -
After arriving at the port, they stopped by the customhouse to have their ship cleared for departure.
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The historical customhouse is now a museum that showcases the history of trade in the region.
Synonyms
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A government building where officials check goods, collect taxes, and allow ships into a country
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word customhouse comes from the parts custom and house. Custom first meant a 'regular practice' and later came to mean payments on goods called 'taxes', so a customhouse is the building where those 'customs' are collected.