[
UK
/ɪmpˈɔːtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɔɹtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɔɹtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country
How To Use importing In A Sentence
- Britain is importing nearly half the fruit and vegetables it consumes each year, according to previously unreported government figures. Times, Sunday Times
- An agricultural lobby is against a law to allow importing cotton from Egypt.
- This comic operetta tells the story of a South Sea Island despot who wishes to anglicise his island by importing all things English.
- We found it had some issues importing video we'd grabbed from elsewhere, and it couldn't be used to create a playable DVD.
- However, Okuic still faces high prices of construction materials like sand and murram/gravel, not naturally found in Malakal, which results in high transportation costs from merchants importing them from Khartoum or Juba. Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
- Britain last year spent nearly £5000 million more on importing food than selling abroad.
- I attended the public schools where I was properly "hazed" and got what was "coming" to all country boys; finally I graduated under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph Finch (a patriot indeed, who made a lasting impress for earnestness on thousands of boys), and then went to business as an entry clerk with a large importing metal house, where I remained until the war broke out. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
- They will be importing beer and vodka from a small organic producer from their home village, and this could be your chance to eat Lutfisk, a jellied fish served with a béchamel sauce.
- This method was cheaper than importing additional workers that could no longer be contractually bound.
- Each offender was aware she was importing cocaine into Canada and, given the notorious dangerousness of the drug, each must have been aware of the serious wrong committed.