0 a person whose job is to make certain travellers are not taking goods into a country without paying taxes
1 a person whose job is to check travellers' bags to make certain they are not taking goods into a country without paying taxes:
2 a government official whose job is to check that goods leaving or entering a country are legal:
Questions about the operation of any individual cases should be referred in the first instance to the local customs officer.
Henry arrived there brandishing all his forms in triplicate or quadruplicate, but found that there was no customs officer to present them to.
They present the druid first to a customs officer, who at first refuses to let them through on charges of importing foreign goods.
Kauschka completed his studies in 1904 and became a customs officer like his father.
Customs officers contacted the council investigation team and arranged to collect books and records from it.
To enter the town they had to pay an entrance tax to the customs officer by the tower gate.
These include an army for a soldier, a custom for a customs officer, a housegirl for a housemaid, and a houseboy for a man-servant.
The traffic through the gate must have increased, and with it the income for the customs officer in charge.
