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Octroi

noun
1.
A tax on various goods brought into a town.






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"Octroi" Quotes from Famous Books



... favourable favorecer, to oblige Febrero, February fecha, date fecha de, dated feliz, happy ferreteria, ironware ferrocarril, railway festoneado, scalloped fiador, surety fiados, book debts fidedigno, trustworthy fiel, faithful fielato, octroi office fiesta del comercio, bank holiday fijar, to fix fijo, fixed, firm filosofia, philosophy firma, signature firmar, to sign firmeza, firmness (el) fin, the end fino, shrewd fletar, to ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano

... de votre bien-veillante reception, et de vous dire que je dsire avoir ma part de l'approbation que le public accorde vos travaux, en continuant l'octroi des prix inaugur par Lord Dufferin, qui savait si bien apprcier la valeur de votre universit, et qui, en sa qualit de savant, connaissait tout le prix de ...
— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell

... the passage of time, he was roused only by the pausing of the tonga and its escort before the Gateway of the Elephants—the main octroi gate in the northern wall of the city. There ensued a brief interchange of formalities between the sergeant of his escort and the captain of the Quarter Guard. Then the tonga was permitted to pass out, and for five minutes rattled and clattered along the border of the lake, stopping finally ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance



Words linked to "Octroi" :   tariff, duty



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