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noun

Import n.

Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; generally in the plural, opposed to exports. "I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them."

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. "Most serious design, and the great import."

verb

Import v. t. (past & past part. imported; pres. part. importing)

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 Brazil, etc.

To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify. "Every petition... doth... always import a multitude of speakers together."

To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern. "I have a motion much imports your good." "If I endure it, what imports it you?"

Synonyms: To denote; mean; signify; imply; indicate; betoken; interest; concern.

Import v. i. To signify; to purport; to be of moment. "For that... importeth to the work."

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Etymology of 'Import'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Import" Quotes from Famous Books

... "puling infants," viewed with gloomy disapproval by the Malthusian bachelor. If the strength of the nation lies in its men and women there is only one way to increase it. Before the war it was thought that a simpler and easier method of increase could be found in the wholesale import of Austrians, Bulgarians and Czecho-Slovaks. The newer nations boasted proudly of their immigration tables. The fallacy is apparent now. Those who really count in a nation and those who govern its destinies for good or ill are those who are ...

— The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice • Stephen Leacock

... of a smile seemed only to give his words a more kindly authoritative import, and as he turned away again with a manner suggestive of finality, Madame Delphine found no choice but to depart. But she went away loving the ground beneath the feet of ...

— Old Creole Days • George Washington Cable

... they did not understand the words that were exchanged between the two sheiks, they were not without having a conjecture as to their import. The gestures made by the two men, and their looks cast frequently towards themselves, led them to believe that the conversation related to their transference from one to ...

— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid

... conditions of industrial life are not changed in such essentials as would involve a change of sex relation to Government; and that, so far from altering the basis of government, industrialism has introduced new problems of such grave import that security in the enforcement of law is doubly necessary. It shows, furthermore, that socialistic labor has been naturally the friend of Woman Suffrage, while the safer and sounder organizations have extended sympathetic ...

— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson

... per year. England was also to advance Spain 200,000 crowns, and to pay a duty of 331/2 crowns for each slave imported. The kings of Spain and England were each to receive one-fourth of the profits of the trade, and the Royal African Company were authorized to import as many slaves as they wished above the specified number in the first twenty-five years, and to sell them, except in three ports, at ...

— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois

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