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Import   /ɪmpˈɔrt/  /ˈɪmpɔrt/   Listen
Import

noun
1.
Commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country.  Synonym: importation.
2.
An imported person brought from a foreign country.  Synonym: importee.  "They are descendants of indentured importees"
3.
The message that is intended or expressed or signified.  Synonyms: meaning, significance, signification.  "The significance of a red traffic light" , "The signification of Chinese characters" , "The import of his announcement was ambiguous"
4.
A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.  Synonyms: implication, significance.  "The expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
5.
Having important effects or influence.  Synonyms: consequence, moment.  "Virtue is of more moment than security" , "That result is of no consequence"
verb
(past & past part. imported; pres. part. importing)
1.
Bring in from abroad.
2.
Transfer (electronic data) into a database or document.
3.
Indicate or signify.  Synonym: spell.



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"Import" Quotes from Famous Books



... and rendered the French wholly dependent upon neutral nations for commerce. As French conquests led to annexations of territory in Italy and in Germany, these regions also found themselves unable to import with their own vessels, and so neutral commerce found ever-increasing markets dependent upon its activity. Now the most energetic maritime neutral power was the United States, whose merchantmen hastened to occupy the field left vacant by the practical extinction of the French ...
— The Wars Between England and America • T. C. Smith
... estimate of the importance of the new art by some scholars, we note the promptness with which the great churchmen of Italy and of France took measures to import German printers and set up presses of their own. In 1464 the abbot of Subiaco, a monastery near Rome, brought to Italy two German printers, Conrad Schweinheim and Arnold Pannartz, and set them at work printing liturgical books for the use of the ...
— Printing and the Renaissance - A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York • John Rothwell Slater
... a cigar after turning several over. "Such poor cigars. I'll be glad when the war is over and I can again import some of my favorite Tampa Perfectos." He snipped the end off the cigar with a gold clipper, then jabbed a full inch of the end into his mouth and rolled the cigar around as though tasting its flavor. "Now," he said, "we will get ...
— A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery
... it appeared on her cheeks; and that intimated a further tale, though not of so dramatic an import as the cognizant short survey ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... women of the Fabian Society, deeply stirred by the tremendous social import of this movement, banded themselves together to unravel the tangled skein of women's economic subjection and to discover how its knots were tied. The first step was to get women to speak out, to analyse their own difficulties and hindrances as matters ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley


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