country-damaged

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English

Adjective

country-damaged (not comparable)

  1. (business) Of imported goods: having suffered damage in the country of origin.
    • 1988, J. Kenneth Goodacre, Goodbye to the Memorandum:
      On arrival in Liverpool the cotton was found to be "country damaged", but it could not be ascertained at what point the damage had occurred, only that the goods had not been placed in a warehouse prior to shipment but left on the quay []