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Meaning import meaning

What does import mean?
Definitions in simple English

import Verb

— When you import something, you are bringing goods from another country to your own country. That company does importing and exporting.

import

— verb bring in from abroad — noun commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country — noun (= importee) an imported person brought from a foreign country the lead role was played by an import from Sweden they are descendants of indentured importees — noun (= significance, implication) 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 — noun (= meaning, significance, signification) 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 ambiguous — verb transfer (electronic data) into a database or document — verb (= spell) indicate or signify I'm afraid this spells trouble! — noun (= consequence, moment) having important effects or influence decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself virtue is of more moment than security that result is of no consequence

Synonyms import synonyms

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importation significance meaning purport importance consequence introduce signification moment important imply bring in significant momentousness mean implication weight substance spell signify sense prelude matter magnitude introduction intake initiate imports importing importee imported implications entrance detail denote convey concern admit worth work value usher transport in think of take into take in supply subject state stand for

Conjugation import conjugation

How do you conjugate import?

import · verb

Examples import examples

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Simple sentences

We import coffee from Brazil.
We import tea from India.
Do you think we should import rice from the U.S.?
I can only import GIF files.
We import flour from America.
The Chinese automotive import market shows signs of slight growth.
We import raw materials and export the finished products.
We import grain from the United States.
We import a large quantity of food.
We import grain from Canada every year.
The author's verbiage produced a document of mammoth size and microscopic import.
Japan began to import rice from the United States.
Different countries import many goods.
Japan has to import oil.
We import a lot of things from Australia.
We import many things from Australia.

Movie subtitles

I welcome this opportunity of discussing with you. another question vital to the import of our country. at this critical and momentous hour.
A small matter of great import has come to our attention, sir.
What import's the nomination of this gentleman?
They're an English import and never been washed.
I run a sort of import-export business, I guess you'd call it.
They import a trainer from the Army.
Client of mine, very big businessman export-import, gave it to his secretary.
Export-import.
Export-import?
What does he export and what does he import?
Those other guys, export-import, and the duke, they don't mean a thing.
After that there was an export-import guy.
Maxime Blanchet, 38, ran an import-export firm.
And I don't think it's smart to import it.
Harvested wheat, and import it into bundles.
They train them. They import a trainer from the Army.
Johanna, what possible import.
Sometimes I wonder if it isn't a waste of money to import 11,000 ping-pong tables for the recreation of you young men.
Dollar-Import in large scale.
There's the airplane ticket over and import duties, hidden taxes, profit markup.
Today we are not going to concern ourselves with chemical equations. Geographical questions or matters of historical import.
Through them, one can import rare goods.
A little import from Hollywood, Miss Donna Dew.
Very rich. Export-import.
Export-import. Yes.

News and current affairs

In the mid-1970's, many parties to the NPT planned to import and develop enrichment and reprocessing facilities.
Greece, on the other hand, is under the influence of a strong import lobby.
As the Greek economics minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis, has said, this is attributable to European Union subsidies, which drove entrepreneurs to follow the easy money into the import sector.
But the strengthening euro reduces both import prices and export demand, which, in itself, causes prices to fall.
Eight to ten million people will have to shift employment from services and construction into exports and import-competing goods, implying that structural unemployment will rise.
Additional elements of current policy that seem to be having an effect are clandestine efforts aimed at impeding Iran's ability to import sensitive technologies.
The conventional wisdom is that Russian industrial growth is only an effect of high oil prices and import substitution, facilitated by a great devaluation of the ruble.
To be sure, there has been the normal inflation associated with large increases in import prices that always follow large devaluations, but rather than setting off a spiral of price increases, inflation rates appear to be dampening.
Import substitution takes place before your eyes: a clothing store that last year sold only imported apparel, now sells only domestically produced goods.
And China's banks pumped massive amounts of credit into the country's economy, enabling it to sustain import demand, which was critical to the global recovery.
But if exports continue to grow in the absence of consumption-led import growth, distortions occur and the trade surplus and foreign reserves increase.
Any policy of intervening in the exchange rate, or imposing import tariffs or capital controls, tends to force other countries to make greater adjustments.
In many developing countries, total tax revenue is derived from three main sources: domestic taxes on goods and services (sales and excise taxes), direct taxes (primarily on corporations), and, most important, taxes on foreign trade (import duties).
And the only way for the trade deficit to shrink substantially is for net imports to fall, which requires either a relatively sharp decline in the value of the dollar, thereby raising import prices, or a depression in the US.
Eliminating or reducing this trade gap without depressing economic activity and employment in Greece requires that the country export more and import less.
Lacking in savings and wanting to grow, the US runs massive current-account and multilateral trade deficits in order to import other countries' surplus savings.
And only then could the US stem the rising tide of import penetration by foreign producers.
China has adopted some policies to reduce its trade surplus, such as lowering import tariffs, withdrawing tax rebates for exported goods, and gradual exchange-rate appreciation.
Thai import-export firms can bet on a run on the baht by accelerating their dollar receipts and delaying their dollar payouts.
Moreover, the military leaders are dragging their feet on easing restrictions on the import of humanitarian supplies and allowing a UN assessment team into the country.
Bhutanese may bring into the country small quantities of cigarettes or tobacco from India for their own consumption, but not for resale - and they must carry the import-tax receipt with them any time they smoke in public.
To be on the safe side, countries ban the import of vaccinated animals anyway.
Moreover, in the past, southern African countries put their faith in protectionism and import substitution policies.

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