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import
[ verb im-pawrt, -pohrt; noun im-pawrt, -pohrt ]
verb (used with object)
- to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
- to bring or introduce from one use, connection, or relation into another:
foreign bodies imported into the blood; foodstuffs imported from the farm.
- to convey as meaning or implication; signify:
Her words imported a change of attitude.
- to involve as a necessary circumstance; imply:
Religion imports belief.
- Computers. to bring (documents, data, etc.) into one software program from another.
- Archaic. to be of consequence or importance to; concern.
verb (used without object)
- to be of consequence or importance; to matter:
We are friends, and it does not import that we have only just met.
noun
- something that is imported from abroad; an imported commodity or article.
- the act of importing or bringing in; importation, as of goods from abroad:
the import of foreign cars.
- consequence or importance:
matters of great import.
Synonyms: ,
- meaning; implication; purport:
He felt the import of her words.
import
verb
- to buy or bring in (goods or services) from a foreign country Compare export
- tr to bring in from an outside source
to import foreign words into the language
- rare.to signify or be significant; mean; convey
to import doom
noun
- often plural
- goods ( visible imports ) or services ( invisible imports ) that are bought from foreign countries
- ( as modifier )
an import licence
- significance or importance
a man of great import
- meaning or signification
- informal.a sportsman or -woman who is not native to the country in which he or she plays
Derived Forms
- 颈尘藢辫辞谤迟补藞产颈濒颈迟测, noun
- 颈尘藞辫辞谤迟补产濒别, adjective
- 颈尘藞辫辞谤迟别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 颈尘路辫辞谤迟顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 颈尘路辫辞谤迟顎卆路产颈濒顎僫路迟测 noun
- 颈尘路辫辞谤迟顎侥谤 noun
- 苍辞苍路颈尘顎僷辞谤迟 noun
- 辞顎卾别谤路颈尘路辫辞谤迟顎 verb (used with object)
- 辫谤别顎卛尘路辫辞谤迟顎 verb (used with object)
- 辫谤别路颈尘顎僷辞谤迟 noun
- 耻苍顎卛尘路辫辞谤迟顎侥诲 adjective
- 耻苍顎卛尘路辫辞谤迟顎僫苍驳 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of import1
Example Sentences
The president promised that new duties on imports would bring companies' manufacturing processes "into the USA in record numbers," as if mothballed factories and new facilities can be built quickly and cheaply.
For example, when the French began to vaccinate ducks for H5N1, the U.S. and other countries banned imports of their H5N1-free poultry.
The US economy shrank in the first three months of the year due a drop in government spending and a surge in imports as firms raced to get goods into the country ahead of tariffs.
But he also voiced a cautionary note about the Trump administration鈥檚 鈥渞eckless tariff policies,鈥 which are already pointing to a steep downturn in imports landed at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
Trump's tariffs in 2016 sent a glut of cheap Chinese imports, originally intended for the US, into South East Asia, hurting many local manufacturers.
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