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"customs" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often traditions (10 letters).
Definitions
money collected under a tariff
Word origin
Plural of custom. Perhaps influenced by or taken as a corruption of customhouse, from Middle English custome hous.
Used in a sentence
“Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.”
“Customs stopped us in the airport for an inspection.”
“They usually don't care about customs, but she was clearly planning on selling most of it.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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