custom

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  PASSING THE CUSTOMS
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj custom made according to the specifications of an individual
  • n custom accepted or habitual practice
  • n custom habitual patronage "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"
  • n custom a specific practice of long standing
  • n custom money collected under a tariff
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TOBY AND THE LITTLE BOY CUSTOMERS

CUSTOM HOUSE, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

• Interesting fact: Every year, Burger King restaurants prepare over 950,000 pounds of bacon for their breakfast customers
• • Custom Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
  • Custom Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. "Age can not wither her, nor custom stale
    Her infinite variety."
  • Custom Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. "And teach customs which are not lawful.""Moved beyond his custom , Gama said.""A custom More honored in the breach than the observance."
  • Custom Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. "Let him have your custom , but not your votes."
  • Custom (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
  • Custom The customary toll, tax, or tribute. "Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom ."
  • v. i Custom To have a custom. "On a bridge he custometh to fight."
  • Custom To make familiar; to accustom.
  • v. t Custom To pay the customs of.
  • Custom To supply with customers.
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• Interesting fact: In total, Americans eat more than 45 billion sandwiches each year, while sales of custom-made sandwiches are rising 15 percent per year
• • n custom The common use or practice, either of an individual or of a community, but especially of the latter; habitual repetition of the same act or procedure; established manner or way.
  • n custom In law, collectively, the settled habitudes of a community, such as are and have been for an indefinite time past generally recognized in it as the standards of what is just and right; ancient and general usage having the force of law. Some writers use the word without qualification, as meaning only general customs—that is, such as are prevalent throughout the nation; and some as meaning only local or particular customs, such as obtain only in a particular class, vocation, or place. In modern use, custom is more appropriate to immemorial habitudes, either general or characteristic of a particular district and having legal force, and usage to the habitudes of a particular vocation or trade. In the history of France the term custom is applied specifically to numerous systems of ancient usage which were judicially recognized as binding upon their respective communities before the revolution of 1789, or until the promulgation of the Code Napoléon: as, the custom of Normandy, of Brittany, of Orleans, etc. There were 60 general customs (each extending over a whole province) and 165 particular customs (those of cities, bishoprics, etc.) reduced to writing. The custom of Paris was established by the French as the law of Canada, and many of its provisions were embodied in the Code Napoléon.
  • n custom The buying of goods or supplying of one's current needs; the practice of having recourse to some particular place, shop, manufactory, house of entertainment, etc., for the purpose of purchasing or giving orders.
  • n custom Toll, tax, or duty; in the plural, specifically, the duties imposed by law on merchandise imported or exported. In the United States customs are by the Constitution confined to duties on imports (on which alone they are now levied in European countries generally), and are imposed by act of Congress. They have constituted more than half the receipts of the national government. Their management is intrusted to an officer of the Treasury Department called the Commissioner of Customs. See tariff.
  • n custom In old French law, a system of customary law common to a whole province.
  • n custom Duty, Impost, etc. See tax, n.
  • custom Done or made for individual customers, or to order: as, custom work; custom shoes.
  • custom Engaged in doing custom work: as, a custom tailor.
  • custom To make familiar; accustom.
  • custom To give custom to; supply with customers.
  • custom To pay duty for at the custom-house.
  • custom To be accustomed; be wont.
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• Interesting fact: The first fashion house to be set up was in 1858 by Charles Worth. He opened his store in Paris with the idea of having pre-made gowns presented on models to his customers
• • n Custom kus′tum what one is wont to do: usage: frequent repetition of the same act: regular trade or business: a tax on goods:
  • n Custom kus′tum (pl.) duties imposed on imports and exports
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• Erwin Frand

  

  “The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?”
• Edmund Burke

  

  “Custom reconciles us to everything.”
• David Hume

  

  “Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.”
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

  

  “Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.”
• Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

  

  “The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.”
• Ovid

  

  “Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.”

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