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customs

noun
/ˈkʌs.təmz/

Etymology

Plural of custom. Perhaps influenced by or taken as a corruption of customhouse, from Middle English custome hous.

  1. derived from custome hous

Definitions

  1. The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.

    • Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.

  2. The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on…

    The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.

    • Customs stopped us in the airport for an inspection.

  3. The process of going through customs checks at a border checkpoint.

    • They usually don't care about customs, but she was clearly planning on selling most of it.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The location at a border checkpoint where customs checks are carried out.

      • "You said someone from Cubetown was gonna meet us here at the airport?" "Yeah. We go through customs, then they'll meet us outside baggage claim."

    2. plural of custom

    3. third-person singular simple present indicative of custom

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at customs. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at customs. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at customs

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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