1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. importer

Find the word definition

What is "importer"

Crossword clues for importer

importer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
importer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ This has helped make it a big importer of garbage.
▪ Dixon hopes to become a big importer of motorcycle clothing and accessories, too.
▪ Only a sixth of Paris's milk came in on the Nord network, the biggest importer being Etat.
large
▪ Timbmet is the uk's second largest wood importer.
▪ Britain is one of the world's largest importers of radioactive waste.
▪ They raided two yards belonging to Timbmet, the country's second largest timber importer, at Oxford and Bicester.
▪ Most fare very badly in captivity and are voluntarily banned from being brought into the country by most of the large importers.
▪ Britain is presently the world's second largest timber importer with a self-sufficiency in wood of only about 10%.
major
▪ Kent also seems to have been the major importer of garnet, although the actual amount that survives has not been quantified.
net
▪ They expect to be net importers of a variety of items - varying from computers to television programming.
■ VERB
become
▪ Dixon hopes to become a big importer of motorcycle clothing and accessories, too.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the importer it provides short-term finance, pending the re-sale of the goods in his domestic market.
▪ Frequently the sales tax is levied on the importer or the manufacturer because it is easier to collect at source.
▪ If you bought mail order, then the first point of contact is the software house or importer concerned.
▪ Kent also seems to have been the major importer of garnet, although the actual amount that survives has not been quantified.
▪ Manufacturers often set different prices for their goods in different countries, but unofficial importers can undercut these prices.
▪ The result is that native honey is being driven off the market, to the benefit of a few happy importers.
▪ The would-be restaurateur became, by accident, an importer.
▪ With the help of my husband who is an importer of clocks, we came up with this idea.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Importer

Importer \Im*port"er\, n. One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.

Wiktionary
importer

n. One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.

WordNet
importer

n. someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)

Wikipedia
Importer (computing)

An importer is a software application that reads in a data file or metadata information in one format and converts it to another format via special algorithms (such as filters). An importer often is not an entire program by itself, but an extension to another program, implemented as a plug-in. When implemented in this way, the importer reads the data from the file and converts it into the hosting application's native format.

For example, the data file for a 3D model may be written from a modeler, such as 3D Studio Max. A game developer may then want to use that model in their game's editor. An importer, part of the editor, may read in the 3D Studio Max model and convert it to the game's native format so it can be used in game levels.

Importers are important tools in the video game industry. A plug-in or application that does the converse of an importer is called an exporter.

Usage examples of "importer".

By a doorway beside a Greek restaurant, his nameplate is sandwiched between that of a Cypriot travel agent and a fancy goods importer.

She took a little time, sipping Evian water and thinking cool thoughts, before turning her attention to the next document: an order form to a Danish importer of violent pornography.

Lester Keith Brassard of 341 Roscommon Drive, 52-year-old importer with offices in lower Manhattan.

The dark-faced Frank Vizzini of Bay Ridge, known as the Importer, and the sausagelike Tony Pentangeli of the Rockaways, who controlled the truckers, both afraid of change and dissensions within their families, were adamantly opposed to the plan.

Harnrim "Darkspells" Starangh did not smile at that observation, but Lady Ambrur was carefully looking now into the round and startled eyes of the importer Aumun Bezrar and no longer meeting the gaze of the Red Wizard.

Being late has punitive consequences – the Ring Imperium has always been a net importer of brainpower and a net exporter of gravitational potential energy.

Mayhap the scribes who wrote the grimoires were in the pay of the bay leaf importers?

He recognized in the group a stillsuit manufacturer down from Carthag, an electronics equipment importer, a water-shipper whose summer mansion was near his polar-cap factory, a representative of the Guild Bank (lean and remote, that one), a dealer in replacement parts for spice mining equipment, a thin and hard-faced woman whose escort service for off-planet visitors reputedly operated as cover for various smuggling, spying, and blackmail operations.

Groups of importers are bound to be multinational, but all of them speak either English or French.

The organization of food importers were arguing about redistributing territory, and while Chloe had a great fondness for lamb and oranges and a well-cooked chicken, there was a limit to her fascination.

I dialed Great Lakes Importers, Paul Venito's legitimate front, but there was no answer.

Quickly he had found out that access to the material was relatively easy and that the trade was prodigious, quite secret, with many small importers, all of them very vague about their business.

She took a running step, plastered herself to the stone side of Gallandry and took a quick look down the cut that led most of the way through Gallandry Isle, roofed with a solid next floor overhead, but not below, where an iron-failed balcony overlooked the water: narrow dark little nook of Gallandry business, the Gallandrys being shippers, factors, importers who sent their big motor-barges up and down the Port and the Grand.

Then we sell them to exporters who resell them to importers, and someday they end their travels on the wall of someone's parlor in Tokyo or Bonn or New York.

We've had to turn away customers for ordinary dinnerware because he shot the last quarter's budget on some Mexican piggy banks some equally enthusiastic importer stuck him with.