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
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
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
I must say, he did n't neglect the opportunity, for he insulted the passport people and the customhouse officers, and the man at the bridge of boats, and the postmasters and postilions everywhere.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
