Crossword clues for importation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Importation \Im`por*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. importation. See Import, v. t.]
The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering. [R.]
The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country or state; -- opposed to exportation.
That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600; see import (v.) + -ation.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or an instance of importing. 2 The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country. 3 That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
WordNet
Usage examples of "importation".
The concept of obligation is an importation from the Civil Law and its appearance in the contracts clause is supposed to have been due to James Wilson, a graduate of Scottish universities and a Civilian.
Henry had secured the castles of Flintshire, and gathered a fleet along the coast to stop the importation of corn that Owen was driven in August to do homage for his land.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Congress impose duties on importations, give drawbacks, pass embargo and nonintercourse laws, and make all other regulations necessary to navigation, to the safety of passengers, and the protection of property.
We have probable cause to believe that a suspect involved in the importation of a large shipment of heroin is currently residing at the Hotel Olivella au Lac in room four zero seven.
Even commerce had some share in this remarkable negotiation: and the Sogdoites, who were now the tributaries of the Turks, embraced the fair occasion of opening, by the north of the Caspian, a new road for the importation of Chinese silk into the Roman empire.
Fielding Athison engage in some sort of unpublicized work in addition to the importation of Asian goods.
Black slaves were easier to control, and their profitability for southern plantations was bringing an enormous increase in the importation of slaves, who were becoming a majority in some colonies and constitued one-fifdi of the entire colonial population.
A great importation of them took place during the reigns of the earlier Edwards, and they caused much annoyance and complaint, till in 1351 it was declared treason to bring them into the country.
Started high and moved lower during the course of the night, from the elegant dignity of a crystalline cube that floated over the apex of the largest pyramid to an expensive tourist club clinging to the sides of a seacliff to a raucous gathering at the home of the Attache for Sensory Importation to a neighborhood saloon where they threw her out after five Bitter Centauris.
They probably saw in the free importation of foreign food the abrogation of rent.
Somehow word of the importation of "hordes of Hiver creatures" for scientific purposes set off a reaction that proved just how strong the militant annihilationists were.
Its chief concern was the importation of Afghans and their camels, which were stealing the entire haulage business from white Australian bullockies and their massive drays.
It was carcinomatous, an importation from one of Uranus’s moons, and still generally unknown.
Complex centralized societies are uniquely capable of organizing public works (including irrigation systems), long-distance trade (including the importation of metals to make better agricultural tools), and activities of different groups of economic specialists (such as feeding herders with farmers’ cereal, and transferring the herders’ livestock to farmers for use as plow animals).