customs duty

1. 1.

   money collected under a tariff

   Synonymscustomscustomimpost

   Broaderduty

   Narrowership money

Questions about customs duty

What does customs duty mean?

customs duty means "money collected under a tariff".

What is another word for customs duty?

Close synonyms include customs, custom, impost. 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 duty a common word?

customs duty 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.