duty-free

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duty-free

adjective

  1. not comparable Exempt from duty, especially from customs duty. CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”

noun duty-frees

  1. countable, uncountable A duty-free article, especially part of the allowance of such goods allowed to be imported. We brought back so much duty-free we could hardly walk.
  2. countable, uncountable A shop where duty-free goods can be bought. Have you been to Melbourne airport's duty-free?

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adj exempt from duty, especially customs

Españolsin arancel
한국어면세 myeonse
日本語免税 menzei, デューティー・フリー dyǔtī hurī, 無税 muzei
中文免稅 /免税 miǎnshuǐ
Portuguêsisento de impostos
Françaishors taxe
Deutschzollfrei, abgabenfrei
Ελληνικάαδασμολόγητος adasmológitos
Românăscutit de vamă, fără vamă, scutit de taxe
Русскийбеспо́шлинный bespóšlinnyj

noun a shop where duty-free goods can be bought

Portuguêsduty-free
Русскийдьютифри dʹjutifri

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@misc{duty_free_2026,
  title = {duty-free},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/duty-free},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}