OCTROI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does octroi mean? 

• OCTROI (noun)
  The noun OCTROI has 1 sense:

1. a tax on various goods brought into a town

  Familiarity information: OCTROI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCTROI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tax on various goods brought into a town

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("octroi" is a kind of...):

duty; tariff (a government tax on imports or exports)

 Context examples 

The customs and the octroi, if there be any, have been avoided.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There are, or there may be, customs and octroi officers to pass. His pursuers might follow. This is his highest fear; and in order to prevent his being betrayed he has repelled, so far as he can, even his victim—me!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)