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duty-free

duty-free adjective: exempt from duty, especially from customs duty.

Adjective

duty-free (not comparable)

  1. Exempt from duty, especially from customs duty.
    • CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald, Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2025

Noun

duty-free (countable and uncountable, plural duty-frees)

  1. A duty-free article, especially part of the allowance of such goods allowed to be imported.
    • We brought back so much duty-free we could hardly walk.
  2. A shop where duty-free goods can be bought.
    • Have you been to Melbourne airport's duty-free?

duty-free meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Indonesian

duty-free in Tamil

தீர்வையற்ற

duty-free in Bengali

duty-free, freehold, not liable to taxes
অকর okor

duty-free in Indonesian

exempt from duty, especially customs
bebas cukai
a shop where duty-free goods can be bought
bebas cukai

Forms of duty-free

pluralduty-frees

Origin of duty-free

From duty + -free.

Questions about duty-free

What does duty-free mean?
Duty-free means exempt from duty, especially from customs duty.
What is duty-free in Tamil?
Duty-free in Tamil is தீர்வையற்ற. See Duty-free meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is duty-free?
Duty-free can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near duty-free in the dictionary

  1. duty rosters
  2. duty solicitor
  3. duty solicitors
  4. duty to retreat
  5. duty-bound
  6. duty-free
  7. duty-frees
  8. duty-man
  9. duty-men
  10. dutybound
  11. dutyfree

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: duty-free (page history and authors); duty-free (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অকর (Bengali) (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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