bonded warehouse

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noun

a warehouse for goods held in bond by the government.

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Origin of bonded warehouse

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby bonded warehouse

bonce, bond, bondable, bondage, bonded, bonded warehouse, bonderize, bondholder, Bondi, Bondi Beach, bond immunization

How to use bonded warehouse in a sentence

Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.
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But much of that gear went missing from the warehouse before the Kiev unit ever saw action.
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Because, for me, the idea of the regal Diane in the ratty warehouse digs is positively tantalizing.
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The school itself could easily be mistaken for a warehouse or a big box national retail chain.
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The revitalized warehouse district extends from NW 20th Street to NW 36th Street, from North Miami Avenue to NW 3rd.
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The duty on this would amount to about 150, and this has to be paid before the tobacco is removed from the bonded warehouse.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
When they are ready they hasten in a crowd to the warehouse, where they have entered into a contract beforehand.
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In 1849, he had a warehouse in York, and owned ten first-rate merchandise cars on the Road, doing a fine business.
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His clothes are made of the finest materials; but are those same materials less fine in the warehouse or in the whole piece?
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Finally, I came to the rear of the vacant warehouse, satisfied that I had arrived unseen.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various

British Dictionary definitions for bonded warehouse

bonded warehouse

noun

a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export

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