IMPORTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does importing mean? 

• IMPORTING (noun)
  The noun IMPORTING has 1 sense:

1. the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country

  Familiarity information: IMPORTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPORTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

importation; importing

Hypernyms ("importing" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "importing"):

smuggling (secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due)

Derivation:

import (bring in from abroad)

 Context examples 

To transfer from a local area to an external or distant area; to move data out of one file or system with the purpose of importing it into another file or system.

(Export, NCI Thesaurus)

At the hotel where Mr. Micawber had requested us to await him, which we got into, with some trouble, in the middle of the night, I found a letter, importing that he would appear in the morning punctually at half past nine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Such a man could come from no place, no society, without importing something to amuse; his journeys and his acquaintance were all of use, and Susan was entertained in a way quite new to her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To Rosings he then hastened, to console Lady Catherine and her daughter; and on his return brought back, with great satisfaction, a message from her ladyship, importing that she felt herself so dull as to make her very desirous of having them all to dine with her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have adopted him, said my aunt, with a wave of her hand, importing that his knowledge and his ignorance were all one to her, and I have brought him here, to put to a school where he may be thoroughly well taught, and well treated.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)