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What's The Definition Of Import?
[n] commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country
[n] having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security" [n] a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication" [n] the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambigtuous" [n] an imported person brought from a foreign country; "the lead role was played by an import from Sweden"; "they are descendants of indentured importees" [v] indicate or signify; "I'm afraid this spells trouble!" [v] bring in from abroad Synonyms | Synonyms for Import: consequence | implication | importation | importee | meaning | moment | significance | significance | signification | spell Related Terms | Find terms related to Import: accent | acceptation | access | add up to | admission | affective meaning | allegorize | allegory | allude to | allusion | amount to something | arcane meaning | argue | assign | assume | assumption | be construed as | be featured | be prominent | be somebody | be something | bearing | bespeak | betoken | breathe | bring in | bring to mind | carry over | carry weight | coloration | coloring | communicate | communication | concern | concernment | conduction | connotation | connote | consequence | consequentiality | consideration | consign | construction | contagion | convection | convey | count | cut ice | cut some ice | deliver | delivery | denotation | denote | deport | deportation | design | diapedesis | diffuse | diffusion | disseminate | dissemination | drift | effect | emphasis | entail | entrance | entree | entry | essence | excellence | expel | export | exportation | express | expulsion | extension | extradite | extradition | force | get top billing | gist | grammatical meaning | hand forward | hand on | hand over | high order | high rank | hint | idea | impact | impart | implicate | implication | implied meaning | imply | importance | importation | importing | income | incoming | indicate | infer | inference | infiltration | ingoing | ingress | ingression | innuendo | input | insertion | insinuate | insinuation | intake | intend | intendment | intension | intent | intention | interchange | interest | interpenetration | interpretation | intimate | intimation | introduce | introduction | introgression | intrusion | involve | ironic suggestion | leakage | lexical meaning | literal meaning | magnitude | make over | mark | materiality | matter | mean | mean to say | meaning | merit | message | metaphorical sense | metastasis | metastasize | metathesis | metathesize | metempsychosis | migration | moment | momentousness | mutual transfer | note | nuance | object | objective | occult meaning | osmosis | overtone | paramountcy | pass | pass on | pass over | pass the buck | passage | passing over | penetration | percolation | perfuse | perfusion | pertinence | pith | point | point indirectly to | practical consequence | precedence | preeminence | presume | presumption | presuppose | presupposition | primacy | priority | purport | purpose | range of meaning | real meaning | reception | refer to | reference | referent | relation | relay | relevance | scope | seepage | self-importance | semantic cluster | semantic field | sense | significance | significancy | signification | significatum | signifie | signify | span of meaning | spell | spirit | spread | spreading | stand for | stand out | star | stress | structural meaning | subsense | subsidiary sense | substance | suggest | suggestion | sum | sum and substance | superiority | suppose | supposition | supremacy | switch | symbolic meaning | symbolism | symbolize | take for granted | tell | tenor | thrust | tinge | totality of associations | touch | transduction | transfer | transfer of property | transfer property | transference | transferred meaning | transfuse | transfusion | transit | transition | translate | translation | translocate | translocation | transmigration | transmigration of souls | transmission | transmit | transmittal | transmittance | transplace | transplacement | transplant | transplantation | transposal | transpose | transposition | travel | turn over | unadorned meaning | undercurrent | undermeaning | understanding | undertone | value | weigh | weight | weightiness | worth See Also | alien | burden | commodity | connotation | content | core | effect | essence | foreigner | gist | goods | grammatical meaning | hell to pay | intend | intension | intent | lesson | lexical meaning | matter | mean | meaning | merchandise | message | moral | nicety | noncitizen | nuance | outlander | overtone | point | purport | referent | refinement | sense | shade | significance | signified | smuggle | spirit | subject matter | substance | substance | subtlety | symbolisation | symbolization | trade | trade goods Import In Webster's Dictionary \Im*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imported}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Importing}.] [L. importare to bring in, to occasion, to
cause; pref. im- in + portare to bear. Sense 3 comes through
F. importer, from the Latin. See {Port} demeanor.]
1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without;
especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place
or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of
commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China,
coffee from Brasil, etc.
2. To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to
signify.
Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a
multitude of speakers together. --Hooker.
3. To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing
on; to concern.
I have a motion much imports your good. --Shak.
If I endure it, what imports it you? --Dryden.
Syn: To denote; mean; sighify; imply; indicate; betoken;
interest; concern.
\Im*port"\, v. i. To signify; to purport; to be of moment. ``For that . . . importeth to the work.'' --Bacon. \Im"port\, n. 1. Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports. I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them. --Burke. 2. That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like. 3. Importance; weight; consequence. Most serious design, and the great import. --Shak. |
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