| 单词 | duty-free |
| 释义 | duty-free, a., adv., and n.
[See duty 3 b.]
A. a. and adv.
a. Free of duty; exempt from payment of duty.
1689Order in Council 12 Dec. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2514/1 The Term allowed for the Importation of Provisions and Necessaries into Ireland Duty-free. 1793T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 43 Where a treaty does not give the principal right of selling, the additional one of selling duty free cannot be given. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 43 The Hanseatic traders..imported their goods duty-free.
b. Comb. duty-free shop, a shop at an airport, on a boat, etc., at which duty-free goods can be bought.
1965Which? May 150/1 Not all airports have duty-free shops. 1969Ibid. Mar. 79/1 Some ‘duty-free’ shop prices are too high. 1970New Yorker 16 May 44/2 Maybe I should get him a gift at the duty-free shop. 1971P. Purser Holy Father's Navy iv. 22 We were already on the second of the two bottles we'd bought at the duty-free shop.
B. n. A duty-free article; freq. used in pl., esp. of cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, etc., bought and imported free of duty by those returning from or travelling abroad; also, a duty-free shop. colloq.
1958Times 16 Sept. 10/7 The meagre stub in his mouth had burnt out and I offered him one of my duty-frees. 1980J. Gardner Garden of Weapons iii. xii. 349 I'm going to march you into the duty free at Tegel and make you buy them. 1982Economist 21 Aug. 64/1 A sample shopping basket of duty-frees costs almost twice as much on LB-Färjorna lines as it does at..Schiphol airport. 1985Sunday Times 10 Mar. 12/1 (Advt.), During the flight, our cabin staff will be coming round with drinks and Duty-Frees. |
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