country-damaged en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of imported goods: having suffered damage in the country of origin.
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 […]
1988, J. Kenneth Goodacre, Goodbye to the Memorandum: