importation

[ UK /ɪmpɔːtˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmpɔɹˈteɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country
  2. the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country
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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.
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