tide waiter
tide waiter noun: a customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties.
Noun
tide waiter (plural tide waiters)
- A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties.
- "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter."1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Great employments are and will be in the hands of Englishmen; nothing left for the younger sons of Irishmen, but vicarages, tidewaiters places, &c. therefore no reason to make them worse.1726, Jonathan Swift, Reasons against the Bill for settling the Tithe of Hemp, &c. by a Modus
- A person who watches public opinion before declaring their own.
tide waiter meaning in Tamil
tide waiter in Tamil
- கரைதுறைக்காவற்காரன்
Forms of tide waiter
| plural | tide waiters |
|---|---|
| alternative form | tidewaiter |
Words formed from tide waiter
Questions about tide waiter
- What does tide waiter mean?
- Tide waiter means a customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties.
- What is tide waiter in Tamil?
- Tide waiter in Tamil is கரைதுறைக்காவற்காரன். See Tide waiter meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is tide waiter?
- Tide waiter is a noun.
- What is the plural of tide waiter?
- The plural of tide waiter is tide waiters.
Words near tide waiter in the dictionary
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