customs post

plural customs posts

1. A place at a border crossing or port of entry where customs and passport checks are carried out.

   There were two further unscheduled stops, one at a small station, Skalice, where a small party of tourists entrained, and at Břeclav, a junction and customs post on the Austrian frontier.

   1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 17

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   The appearance of the pier was scarcely improved by these additions, or by the wooden huts and offices from time to time, especially after the establishment of the Irish Free State customs-post in 1922.

   1960 May 29, K. A. Murray, “Carlisle Pier, Dun Laoghaire”, in Railway Magazine, page 306

   Synonyms: border post