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noun

Export n.

The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.

That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; used chiefly in the plural, exports. "The ordinary course of exchange... between two places must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports."

verb

Export v. t. (past & past part. exported; pres. part. exporting)

To carry away; to remove. (Obs.) "(They) export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy."

To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.

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... with each other. But Philip of Valois had persuaded the Count of Flanders, Louis de Nevers, to order the arrest of all the English in Flanders, and Edward had retaliated by arresting all the Flemings who were in England, and forbidding the export of English wool to Flanders. The result was that the weavers of Bruges and the other manufacturing towns of Flanders found themselves on the road to ruin; and, having no interest in the question at issue between the Kings of France and England, apart from its effect on their commercial ...

— Bruges and West Flanders • George W. T. Omond

... consequences. Would men of capital and science, turn their attention to distillations, from the produce of our own country, preserve the liquor until age and management would render it equal, if not superior to any imported; is it not probable that it would become an article of export, and most sensibly ...

— The Practical Distiller • Samuel McHarry

... wolf from the door, and to permit the continuation of scholarship. How much more unselfish and ennobling a life than that of the feverish money-getter, with all his appliances of forge and factory, and export and import! I had found an answer to my yearnings and my unrest in this untiring devotion ...

— A Romantic Young Lady • Robert Grant

... the yellow Canada Lily, which will grow in a swamp rather than forego moisture. La, the Celtic for white, from which the family derived its name, makes this bright-hued flower blush to own it. Seedsmen, who export quantities of our superb native lilies to Europe, supply bulbs so cheap that no one should wait four years for flowers from seed, or go without their splendor in ...

— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al

... The latter is bad and tasteless in the Caspian, with the exception of the sturgeon, which abounds during certain seasons of the year. The fisheries are nearly all leased by Russians, who extract and export the caviar. There is good shooting in the forests around Lenkoran, and tigers are occasionally met with. The large one in the possession of Prince Dondoukoff Korsakoff, mentioned in the first chapter, was shot within a few miles ...

— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt

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