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Definition of Importing
1. Noun. The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country.
Generic synonyms: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Specialized synonyms: Smuggling
Derivative terms: Import, Import
Definition of Importing
1. a. Full of meaning.
Definition of Importing
1. Verb. (present participle of import) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Importing
1. import [v] - See also: import
Lexicographical Neighbors of Importing
Literary usage of Importing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"But our ignorance of the quantity consumed by the importing countries of Eastern and
... The quantity actually passing through the market of the importing ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great by Eaton Sylvester Drone (1879)
"By section 10, the importing of piratical copies is expressly prohibited. ...
86, for sum, and to import and to distribute importing for sale any book first ..."
3. A Treatise on Federal Criminal Law Procedure by William Hawley Atwell (1916)
"Importing Contract Labor. 391. Pandering. 392. White Slave Act. 392a. ...
It prohibits the importing of women for prostitution, the importing of contract ..."
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