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duty-free shop

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noun

  1. a shop, esp one at an airport or on board a ship, that sells perfume, tobacco, etc, at duty-free prices

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The diplomat walked through the store Wednesday, describing it as similar to an upscale duty free shop at a major international airport.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024

Passengers walk inside a duty free shop at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France near Paris, France, December 2, 2021.

From Reuters • Jun. 9, 2022

Louis Vuitton declined to comment when asked about plans for a duty free shop in Hainan, which has boomed as a high-end shopping destination during the COVID-19 pandemic with Chinese consumers unable to travel abroad.

From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2021

A Louis Vuitton duty free shop on the island would be one of only a handful of such retail outlets worldwide for the label.

From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2021

As recently as five or six years ago, those words together still conjured an off-putting image for many men—of over-designed, gallingly expensive footwear, littered with logos in a way that evoked a duty free shop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2015

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