import

Topic: ECONOMICS

import
1 noun

im‧port1

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1 [uncountable and countable]PE a product that is brought from one country into another so that it can be sold there, or the business of doing this [≠ export]:

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a ban on beef imports

the abolition of import duties (=taxes)

import from

cheap imports from Asia

American demand for Japanese imports (=goods from Japan)

the import of electrical goods

2 [countable] something new or different that is brought to a place where it did not previously exist:

The beetle is thought to be a European import.

3 [uncountable] formal importance or meaning:

a matter of no great import

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