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export
[ verb ik-spawrt, -spohrt, ek-spawrt, -spohrt; noun adjective ek-spawrt, -spohrt ]
verb (used with object)
- to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc.
- to send or transmit (ideas, institutions, etc.) to another place, especially to another country.
- Computers. to save (documents, data, etc.) in a format usable by another software program.
verb (used without object)
- to ship commodities to another country for sale, exchange, etc.
noun
- the act of exporting; exportation:
the export of coffee.
- something that is exported; an article exported:
Coffee is a major export of Colombia.
adjective
- of or relating to the exportation of goods or to exportable goods:
export duties.
- produced for export:
an export beer.
export
noun
- often plural
- goods ( visible exports ) or services ( invisible exports ) sold to a foreign country or countries
- ( as modifier )
export finance
an export licence
verb
- to sell (goods or services) or ship (goods) to a foreign country or countries
- tr to transmit or spread (an idea, social institution, etc) abroad
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Derived Forms
- exˌportaˈbility, noun
- exˈporter, noun
- exˈportable, adjective
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Other Words From
- ex·porta·ble adjective
- ex·porta·bili·ty noun
- ex·porter noun
- nonex·porta·ble adjective
- super·export noun
- super·ex·port verb (used with object)
- unex·porta·ble adjective
- unex·ported adjective
- unex·porting adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of export1
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Example Sentences
Houston has the largest medical center in the world, and the largest export port in the entire country.
Enforcement of U.S Code, Title VII, Chapter 25A “Export Standards for Grapes and Plums” remains fully funded, thank goodness.
Cuban cigars are world-renowned for their quality and craftsmanship, and Americans have loved this major Cuban export for decades.
A limited edition export stout known as the Indra Kunindra came to wash it down.
There were rising export numbers, education programs, and maternal health efforts.
An act of parliament passed, authorizing the East India company to export their own tea, duty 3d.
It is interesting to note that some other articles of customary export showed large declines in 1915 as compared with 1914.
As a result, tobacco became the first important money crop and export of Virginia.
The planters cure by air-drying in sheds, and afterwards it is tied up in hands and baled for export.
The import and export duties are paid at the custom-house, between which and the treasury a monthly settlement takes place.
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