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duty-free Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 Duty-free goods are goods bought in special shops in airports, on ships, etc. on which you do not pay government tax:
- He bought his wife some duty-free perfume.
- I bought some perfume in the duty-free shop.
1 goods that you can buy in special shops in airports, on ships, etc., without paying tax on them:
- We can buy our duty-free while we're waiting at the airport.
- There'll be a duty-free on the ferry.
2 sold without any tax added, esp. at airports
3 duty-free goods are goods that you can buy without paying the tax that would normally be added to their price, often sold in airports, on planes, etc.:
- She had bought some duty-free perfume at the airport.
- duty-free goods/items/purchases
- the duty-free business/industry/market
4 a duty-free shop:
- She works in the duty-free at Gatwick.
5 goods that you can buy, for example, at an airport, without paying the tax that would normally be added to their price, or the system that allows these goods to be sold without tax:
- Since the abolition of duty free, airports can no longer rely on alcohol and tobacco for profits.
- I didn't have time to buy any duty-frees.

It was decided to attract investors through incentives that included duty-free imports, untaxed operations, cheap but educated labour, and profit mobility.
The architect asked those providing glass from abroad to submit bids consistent with the assumption that the glass would be admitted to the country duty-free.
Estimates are sensitive to a whole range of assumptions about the nature of the successor regime and the post-abolition marketing strategies of the duty-free operators.
It says that there is no evidence that carrying duty-free alcohol on passenger flights is in itself dangerous.
The duty-free facilities also give incoming and outgoing tourists the chance to spend their money how they like.
One imaginative idea which has been put forward is that the islands should be made a duty-free zone.
We should also reduce duty-free allowances and increase the policing of our borders to reduce alcohol smuggling.
Do not other countries which are interested in the import of this raw material allow it duty-free entry anyway?