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IMPORTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country
Synonyms:
importation; importing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("importation" 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 "importation"):
smuggling (secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due)
Derivation:
import (bring in from abroad)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country
Synonyms:
import; importation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("importation" is a kind of...):
commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)
Derivation:
import (bring in from abroad)
