customs officer
noun [ C ]
TAX, GOVERNMENT, TRANSPORT ukus (also customs official)
a person whose job is to check travellers' bags to make certain they are not taking goods into a country without paying taxes:
She was stopped by a customs officer who opened her luggage.
(also customs agent)
a government official whose job is to check that goods leaving or entering a country are legal:
One container seized by customs officers contained counterfeit Nike sneakers worth nearly $700,000.
There are customs agents checking every vehicle coming into the country.