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CIQ

CIQ is the initialism of customs.

Meaning of customs

Noun

customs (countable and uncountable, plural customs)

  1. (in plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
    • Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.
  2. (singular, uncountable) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
    • Customs stopped us in the airport for an inspection.
  3. The process of going through customs checks at a border checkpoint.
    • They usually don't care about customs, but she was clearly planning on selling most of it.
  4. The location at a border checkpoint where customs checks are carried out.
    • "You said someone from Cubetown was gonna meet us here at the airport?" "Yeah. We go through customs, then they'll meet us outside baggage claim."2022, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4922: Welcome To Canada

Questions about CIQ

What is CIQ the initialism of?
CIQ is the initialism of customs.

Words near CIQ in the dictionary

  1. cipropride
  2. ciprostene
  3. ciproxifan
  4. ciproxin
  5. CIPS
  6. CIQ
  7. CIR
  8. cir.
  9. CIRA
  10. ciramadol
  11. ciranda

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CIQ (page history and authors); customs (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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