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Custom House

 
 
noun [C] (also Customs House) GOVERNMENT, TAX, TRANSPORT

Definition

a government building at a port where, in the past, the papers for goods leaving or entering a country were checked and taxes were paid
(Definition of Custom House noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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