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  • 11duty not paid —    smuggled    Especially of tobacco and alcoholic drinks into countries with higher taxes than their neighbours:     The 1993 paper tells us that BAT s Brazilian subsidiary, Souza Cruz, [was] increasing its market share as a result of DNP, Duty… …

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  • 12French article —    smuggled brandy    The euphemism passed into some general use to include imports which had suffered excise duty. Also, in smuggling argot, as French cream, elixir, or lace. A Frenchman was a single bottle of brandy. I m not sure why in Ireland …

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  • 13People smuggling — Over a thousand men, smuggled into Oman, return to Pakistan by boat after they were arrested. South Asians are smuggled into the Middle East each year, but many are caught and sent back. People smuggling (also called human smuggling) is defined… …

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  • 14Smuggling — Smuggling, also known as trafficking, is the clandestine transportation of goods or persons past a point where prohibited, such as out of a building, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of the law or other rules.There… …

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  • 15smuggle — 01. He was arrested for trying to [smuggle] drugs across the border. 02. In certain countries, drug [smugglers] are sentenced to death. 03. The plane crashed after a bomb which had been [smuggled] on board by a suicidal man exploded in the… …

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  • 16Raymond Hoser — Infobox Person name = Raymond Hoser birth name = Raymond Terrence Hoser birth date = 1962 birth place = United Kingdom death date = death place = Raymond Terrence Hoser (Born: 1962 U.K.) is an Australian herpetologist and author. He writes about… …

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  • 17contraband — con·tra·band / kän trə ˌband/ n [Italian contrabbando act of smuggling, from contra against + bando edict, law]: property that is unlawfully produced, possessed, or transported contraband per se: property that is in and of itself unlawful to… …

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  • 18smuggle — smug‧gle [ˈsmʌgl] verb [transitive] LAW to take something or someone illegally from one country to another: smuggle something into/​out of • They caught her trying to smuggle drugs into France. • The silver was found in Yugoslavia and smuggled… …

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  • 20Charles Coward — Charles Joseph Coward Coward on the set of The Password Is Courage with Dirk Bogarde, who played him in the film B …

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