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Definition of Customhouse
1. Noun. A government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country.
Definition of Customhouse
1. n. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.
Definition of Customhouse
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of custom house) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Customhouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Customhouse
Literary usage of Customhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"customhouse BROKER. Every person, firm, or company whose occupation It is, as
the agent of others, to arrange entries and other customhouse papers, ..."
2. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"INVESTIGATION OF THE NEW YORK customhouse:. A General Examination of Several
Ports Ordered — No Difficulty Except at New York — First Report ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Accordingly, they received the cases and boxes containing the cigars at the
customhouse, and paid the duties and freight. All of the cigars were sent and ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1840)
"ry few assignments have ever been made in that state which did not c ni.iin the
clause against which the Supreme Court has now declared customhouse BONDS. ..."
5. Historical Collections of the State of New York: Containing a General by John Warner Barber, Henry Howe (1842)
"... of the customhouse, Wall-street. " By a statute of Columbia college, the
corporation of the city of New York, the trustees of the New York Public School ..."
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