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im·port

(ĭm-pôrt′, ĭm′pôrt′)

tr.v. im·port·ed, im·port·ing, im·ports

1. To bring or carry in from an outside source, especially to bring in (goods or materials) from a foreign country for trade or sale.

2. Computers To receive (data) into one program from another.

a. To carry or hold the meaning of; signify: had trouble understanding what the strange word imported.

b. To express or make known: the news imported by their letter.

c. To betoken or indicate: a high inflation rate importing hard times for the consumer.

n. (ĭm′pôrt′)

1. Something imported: levied a tax on imports from overseas.

2. The act or occupation of importing goods or materials.

3. Meaning; signification: The import of his statement is ambiguous.

4. Importance; significance: a legal decision of far-reaching import. See Synonyms at importance.

[Middle English importen, to convey a meaning, from Medieval Latin importāre and from Old French importer, to cause, both from Latin importāre, to carry in, cause : in-, in; see in-² + portāre, to carry; see per- in Indo-European roots.]

im·port′a·bil′i·ty n.

im·port′a·ble adj.

im·port′er n.

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Translations

importable

adj → einführbar

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However, in order to forestall the chances of import of hazardous waste, the import had been subjected to different conditions, which included that it should be importable only by industrial consumer having recycling facilities, subject to a no-objection certificate from the Ministry of Climate Change and duly certified by provincial Environmental Protection Agency (Federal EPA, in case of Islamabad Capital Territory).

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But Lopez said that with rice becoming freely importable under tariffication law, prices of the staple food could go down to R30 a kilo from the projected range of R32 to R37.