CUSTOMHOUSE

Definition: CUSTOMHOUSE

CUSTOMHOUSE

Noun

1. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CUSTOMHOUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Shipping

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Jurisdiction

Press gang; exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier.

Mart

Noun: mart; market, marketplace; fair, bazaar, staple, exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall; tollbooth, customhouse; Tattersall's.

Crosswords: CUSTOMHOUSE

Books

• Customhouse Brokers' License Examinations (Cble (Admission Test Series) (reference)

• Fundamental Principles of Importing and Customhouse Brokerage (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

According to modifications in the Mexican customs law, the participation of a customhouse broker is not obligatory for imports if all legal and technical requirements are met. The participation of a customhouse broker is suggested when the exporter is not familiar with the Mexican standards and customs processing procedures. (references)

Trade

Colombia

Major customhouse brokers have a customs office in their own bonded warehouses where most clearance procedures are completed before the merchandise is delivered to the customers. (references)

Ireland

The transit document provides the basis for a single, comprehensive procedure covering the goods within the EU. Since this is an EU procedure, the European importer, customhouse broker, freight forwarder, or shipper must prepare these documents at point of entry into the EU region. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "CUSTOMHOUSE": Customhouse broker ♦ customhouse charges ♦ customhouse clearance ♦ customhouse officer ♦ To clear a ship at the customhouse. Additional references.

Albanian

Doganë (chop-house, customs, customs house, duty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الجمرك. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Митница. (various references)

Czech

Celnice (customs). (various references)

Dutch

goederen in consignatie bij de douane (goods held up at the customhouse). (various references)

Farsi 

گمرکخانه(customshouse=), اداره گمرک . (various references)

Finnish

tullivarastossa olevat tavarat (goods held up at the customhouse), sisäänkäynti tullirakennukseen (customhouse entry), sisäänkäynti tulliin (customhouse entry). (various references)

French

Douane (customs). (various references)

German

bei dem Zollamt in Aufbewahrung gegebene Waren (goods held up at the customhouse). (various references)

Greek 

Τελωνείων. (various references)

Italian

Dogana (custom, customs, customs duty, duty). (various references)

Pig Latin

ustomhousecay.(various references)

Portuguese

alfândega (custom, custom-house, customs), aduana (customs). (various references)

Russian 

таможня таможенный (customs), таможня (choky, custom house, custom-house, customs, customshouse). (various references)

Swedish

varor som kvarhålls av tullmyndighet (goods held up at the customhouse), varor som är deponerade hos tullmyndighet (goods held up at the customhouse), passage genom tull (customhouse entry). (various references)

Turkish

gümrük dairesi (customs, customs house), gümrük (customs). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "CUSTOMHOUSE": customhouses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CUSTOMHOUSE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: customshouse. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: outhouses.

-3 letters: costumes, outcomes, outhouse, schmoose, smooches, smoothes, smutches.

-4 letters: chooses, chouses, cohosts, costume, customs, hocuses, humuses, mooches, mouches, mucuses, mutches, outcome, outecho, schmoes, schmoos, scouths, smooths, soothes, touches, tusches.

-5 letters: cestos, cestus, chemos, chests, choose, choses, chouse, chutes, cohost, cometh, comets, comose, comous, comtes, cosets, coshes, cosmos, cosset, couths, custom, custos, escots, houses.

+1 letter: customhouses, customshouse.

+2 letters: customshouses.