custom house
noun
a government building or office, as at a seaport, for collecting customs, clearing vessels, etc.
customhouse,
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a variation of
custom house.
Example Sentences
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And shoppers ducked into the small stores that share a main street with a 17th-century merchant’s house and an 18th-century town hall building that once served as a customhouse.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2018
Henceforth, decreed the French government, every Japanese recorder would have to clear a tiny ten-man customhouse in landlocked Poitiers.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the customhouse in Ciudad Juarez, 62 inspectors were fired, 25 other officials suspended, and 76 employees either fined or transferred.
From Time Magazine Archive
At his rolltop desk in a musty corner of the wood-and-adobe Managua customhouse, Irving A. Lindberg did an honest and efficient job.
From Time Magazine Archive
The town contains a summer palace of the bey, the old seraglio, arsenal and customhouse, and many villas, gardens and pleasure resorts, Goletta being a favourite place for sea-bathing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
