| 词汇 | custom-house |
| 释义 | Custom House noun [ C ] GOVERNMENT, TAX, TRANSPORTukus(alsoCustoms House) 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 Examples of Custom HouseCustom House No military action would be involved; it would simply be a blockade, though not technically a blockade, resting on the customhouse of each country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It originally functioned as a courthouse, post office, and customhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. For a brief time, the new building also served as a customhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The customhouse existed at several locations over the years. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The most important arterial roads entered the city via drawbridges and gates; each of these locations additionally included a customhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The customhouse was typically located in a seaport or in a city on a major river with access to the ocean. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The crowd moved away from the immediate area of the customhouse, but continued to grow in nearby streets. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Guard posts were set up in the region to prevent people from slipping around the customhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They lived in intermistic, one-storey sheds which existed up until 1869 when the customhouse was expanded. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The entrance to the harbour was blocked with a barrier at night which marked the boundary between the northern and southern customhouse areas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. From 1837-75 it was used as the town jail and courthouse and later a customhouse and a coastguard station. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The original meaning was bundle (of written sheets), hence book, especially book of accounts, and hence office of accounts, customhouse, council chamber. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The city lost vital shops, the customhouse, post office, hotels, churches, and banks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Amongst other ventures, the firm supplied the bricks for building the customhouse for the port which was developing in the town. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The customhouse was probably used as a guard room. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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