duty-free

From duty +‎ -free.

duty-free (not comparable)

1. Exempt from duty, especially from customs duty.
   • 2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”

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?

Unadapted borrowing from English duty-free.

duty-free m (plural duty-frees)

1. duty-free (a shop where duty-free goods can be bought)

Unadapted borrowing from English duty-free.

duty-free n (plural duty-free-uri)

1. duty-free shop