duty-free
free of customs duty or tax on imported or exported goods: duty-free cargo; merchandise shipped duty-free.
pertaining to or selling goods for import or export free of the usual customs duty: a duty-free shop at the airport.
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How to use duty-free in a sentence
Even more than competition to his bridge, Maroun objects to competition for his duty-free gasoline stations.
One communicates with her by text, if at all, meeting only in the duty-free zones of strip clubs and hotel suites.
All goods imported by the Company were during twenty-one years to be duty free, with the exception of foreign sugar and tobacco.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayBuck-wheat was to be subject to the same rule: maize and buck-wheat, and the flour of these corns, were to be admitted duty free.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanI propose that, from the passing of the act, some articles shall be admitted duty free.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
It is true that those others would be obliged to yield the same compensation, that is to say, to receive our vessels duty free.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents | James D. RichardsonBut if the varnish manufacturer is to have alcohol duty-free what is to prevent him from using some of it for drinking?
The Romance of War Inventions | Thomas W. Corbin
British Dictionary definitions for duty-free
with exemption from customs or excise duties
goods sold in a duty-free shop
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