Import
To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc.
To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify.
To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern.
To signify; to purport; to be of moment.
Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.
That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.
Importance; weight; consequence.
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Import Quotations
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry Miller
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.
Anna Lindh
We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.
Jennifer Granholm
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.
Martin Feldstein
They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
Hans Blix
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.
Eamon de Valera
Import Translations
import in Afrikaans is invoer
import in Dutch is importeren, invoeren
import in French is implanter, importons, importent, importez
import in German is Einfuhr, importieren
import in Italian is importare, importo, introdurren, importazione
import in Swedish is importera, import
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