Definition of Customs Service

1. Noun. The agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Customs Service

Cushing
Cushing's basophilism
Cushing's disease
Cushing's pituitary basophilism
Cushing's suture
Cushing's syndrome
Cushing's syndrome medicamentosus
Cushing effect
Cushing phenomenon
Cushing response
Custer
Custer's Last Stand
Customs Bureau
Customs Service (current term)
Cuterebra
Cuterebridae
Cuthbert
Cuthbertson
Cutler
Cutsahnim
Cutterman
Cuvier
Cuvier's ducts
Cuvier's veins
Cuyonon
Cuzco
Cwm Silicon
Cwmbran

Literary usage of Customs Service

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The International Relations of the Chinese Empire by Hosea Ballou Morse (1918)
"Cosmopolitan character of customs service . . . 140 4. Mercantile hostility to jurisdiction of customs . . .14l 5. Consular hostility to jurisdiction of ..."

2. Some Roads Towards Peace: A Report to the Trustees of the Endowment on by Charles William Eliot (1913)
"The Imperial Maritime Customs Service At Shanghai I had the best possible opportunities to appreciate the great service which Sir Robert Hart rendered to ..."

3. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson (1915)
"The customs service, 246. Revenue cutter service, 248. Life-saving service, 249. Marine Hospital, 249. Bureau of Public Health, 250. Quarantine service, 250 ..."

4. China and Her People by Charles Denby (1905)
"THE IMPERIAL Customs Service rI ""HE Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs ... The customs service, upon its foundation, made instant plea for continuance. ..."

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