importation Definition

import
verb imported, importing

1. To bring (goods, etc) in to a country from another country.

Thesaurus: introduce, bring in, ship; Antonym: export.
2. To bring something in from another, external source.
3. computing.
To load (a file, text, data, etc) prepared with one program into another program.
4. formal or old use
To signify, imply or portend.
Thesaurus: indicate, signify, imply, mean, purport.

noun

1. A commodity, article, etc that has been imported.
2. The act or business of importing goods.


Example: import duty
4. formal
Importance.
Example: a matter of great import
5. formal or old use
Meaning.
Thesaurus: implication, meaning, essence, intention, substance, gist.

Derivative: importable
adj

Derivative: importation

The act or process of importing.

Something that is imported.

Derivative: importer
noun

Etymology: 15c: from Latin importare, from portare to carry away.