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Importing   /ɪmpˈɔrtɪŋ/   Listen
Importing

noun
1.
The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country.  Synonym: importation.


Import

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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"Importing" Quotes from Famous Books



... are distributed by him among the merchants of Cairo, in proportion to their supposed capital in trade, and they are obliged to take the articles off his hands at the highest prices which they bear in the Bazar. If this trade is encreased by the Pasha, it will entirely prevent the merchants from importing goods on their own account from Djidda, the quantity they are thus obliged to take from the Pasha being fully sufficient for the ...
— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt
... the captain, whilst this conversation was passing, was a study in suppressed emotions. He was a firm advocate for importing the manners of the quarter-deck into private life, the only drawback being that he had to leave behind him the language usual in that locality. To this omission he ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... natural history, nor of chemistry. Though regarding Vauquelin as a great man, he thought him an exception,—of about the same capacity as the retired grocer who summed up a discussion on the method of importing teas, by remarking with a knowing air, "There are but two ways: tea comes either by caravan, or by Havre." According to Birotteau aloes and opium were only to be found in the Rue des Lombards. Rosewater, said to be brought from Constantinople, ...
— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac
... in sorrowful deliberation upon the fate of their patron. Clarke's genius being rather more fruitful in resources than that of the seaman, he suggested an advertisement, which was accordingly inserted in the daily papers; importing that, "Whereas a gentleman of considerable rank and fortune had suddenly disappeared, on such a night, from his house near Golden Square, in consequence of a letter delivered to him by a porter; and there is great reason to believe some violence hath been offered to his life; any person capable ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... salt-making and the like operations, which through bad management and calculation have all gone to nought, or come to little; but which nevertheless have cost much. Had the same money been used in bringing people and importing cattle, the country would now have been of ...
— Narrative of New Netherland • Various


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