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import
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country [syn: importation ] [ant: export ] an imported person brought from a foreign country; "the lead role was played by an import from Sweden"; "they are descendants of indentured importees" [syn: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Import \Im*port"\, v. i. To signify; to purport; to be of moment. ``For that . . . importeth to the work.'' --Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"consequence, importance," 1580s; sense of "that which is imported" is from 1680s; both from import (v.).
Usage examples of import.
But IPC imported the remaining third from a large refinery in Abadan, Iran.
The top of each hill was prolonged to a point by the tapering minaret of one of those Abadite mosques which the girl thought the most Eastern of all things imported from the East.
In 1956 a Brazilian entomologist had imported African bees with the idea of crossbreeding them with Brazilian bees and creating a bee family as industrious as the Africans but as as the European bee.
Until some other country was willing to furnish Jordan with the cheap oil and major import market its economy required, the Security Council was not going to enforce the sanctions against Amman for fear of wreaking havoc in the Hashimite Kingdom.
It was not, however, completely self-sufficient in food and imported some from other Anchors, and a fair amount of the place outside of the center was given over to woods and wildernesslike areas in which game abounded.
His globe, imported at great cost from Earth itself, involved anoles, quick, flitting creatures that fed and mated, birthed and died and fed the plants that fed the creatures that fed them.
What mean these two days wasted at Axminster at a time when every hour is of import?
New bees were being imported from Europe - selected with the greatest care.
Ten thousand little boys were imported from Bihar to make carpets in Mirzapur-Varanasi.
And it was natural to consider imported blacks as slaves, even if the institution of slavery would not be regularized and legalized for several decades.
It has been supplanted by the dictatorship of the Central Committee of the Bolshevist Party, governing with the assistance of a swarm of extraordinary commissions and punitive detachments of imported soldiers.
It was an Italian import, a Borsalino, and it was priced at twenty bucks.
In its ground germs it was, it seems to us, unquestionably imported into Celtic thought and Cymrian song from that prolific and immemorial Hindu mind which bore Brahmanism and Buddhism as its fruit.
At the accession of the Queen protective duties or taxes existed in Great Britain on all imported breadstuffs and on many manufactured articles.
And then, since Consolidated and Brighter Suns both seemed to have it, that the drug had been imported by the Powers and was being kept secret, possibly because it gave the two policorps some unforeseen edge.