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Definition of Exportation

1. Noun. Commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country.

2. Noun. The commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country.

Definition of Exportation

1. n. The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.

Definition of Exportation

1. Noun. The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce. ¹

2. Noun. Commodity exported; an export. ¹

3. Noun. The act of carrying out. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exportation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exportation

exponentiated exponentiates exponentiating exponentiation exponentiations exponents expontaneous export export credit export duty

export subsidies export subsidy exportabilities exportability exportable exportation (current term) exportations exported exporter exporters

exportin exporting exportins exports expos exposable exposal exposals expose expose oneself

Literary usage of Exportation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Reviewby Ralph Griffiths by Ralph Griffiths (1786)
"23;- — The quantity grown at Minorca — vii. 209 — Bounty on, for exportation, how far expedient xxxii. 8^ — Bounties on exportation prejudicial — xviii. ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"Mr. Justice Brewer delivered the opinion of the court: The statute allows the drawback "on the exportation," and the question is whether goods placed on ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1825)
"Alderman Thompson protested against the exportation of wool. Mr. T. Wilson thought it unwise to allow the exportation of long wool to countries which showed ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"But since that decision Congress has abolished all charge for the exportation stamp, by an Act passed August 8,1882, entitled "An Act to Repeal so Much of ..."

5. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and by John Ramsey McCulloch, Vethake, Henry (1852)
"In addition to the restraints laid on exportation, it has been common in most countries ... Besides attempting to lower prices by prohibiting exportation, ..."

6. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1884)
"Upon the exportation of some foreign goods, of which it was expected that ... To facilitate the great exportation which was necessary, in order to rid us of ..."

7. Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo (1903)
"A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower •**• its price to the foreign consumer ... But if a bounty of 10». per quarter were given on exportation, ..."

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