customs service

1. 1.

   the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs

   SynonymsBureau of CustomsCustoms BureauUSCB

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of the Treasury

Questions about customs service

What does customs service mean?

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

What is another word for customs service?

Close synonyms include Bureau of Customs, Customs Bureau, 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 service a common word?

customs service 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.