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UK
/ɪmpɔːtˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌɪmpɔɹˈteɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmpɔɹˈteɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country
- the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country
How To Use importation In A Sentence
- One such ramification is the importation of “books” per se. On the Great Book Blockade of 2009 (Updated 7 May) (with BDAP Paper) « BAHAY TALINHAGA
- Her dress is a recent importation from France.
- Another concern was the problem of uncontrolled importations of exotic species.
- Thinking that Clinton's giving NK the go-ahead for nuclear importation is like thinking that Clinton's a communist. Bubba gets it done (Jack Bog's Blog)
- They're even threatening to withhold new drugs to Canada unless the government negotiates a price that is high enough to discourage reimportation.
- SECTION 2 The transportation or importation into any State, Territory or Possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxi - cating liquors in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited. Legacy
- He added, however, that his Ministry is looking into ways in which it could legally ban their importation.
- Many governments are very strict about imposing restrictions on the importation of foodstuffs which contain excessive concentrations of heavy metals.
- Ought not the renting of untenantable rooms, and the crowding of such numbers into a single room as must breed disease, and may infect a neighborhood, be as much forbidden as the importation of a pestilence? Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
- It is also open-ended, in the sense of being always subject to rapid change due to innovation and importation.
