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BUREAU OF CUSTOMS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bureau of Customs mean?
• BUREAU OF CUSTOMS (noun)
The noun BUREAU OF CUSTOMS has 1 sense:
1. the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs
Familiarity information: BUREAU OF CUSTOMS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Bureau of Customs; Customs Bureau; Customs Service; USCB
Hypernyms ("Bureau of Customs" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("Bureau of Customs" is a part of...):
Department of the Treasury; Treasury; Treasury Department; United States Treasury (the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789)
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