customs bureau

1. 1.

   the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs

   SynonymsBureau of CustomsCustoms ServiceUSCB

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of the Treasury

Questions about customs bureau

What does customs bureau mean?

customs bureau means "the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs".

What is another word for customs bureau?

Close synonyms include Bureau of Customs, Customs Service, USCB. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is customs bureau a common word?

customs bureau is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.