单词 | importer |
释义 | importern. 1. A person who, or company, enterprise, etc., which imports goods or commodities from abroad for use or resale in the domestic market; a country, state, etc., into which goods or commodities are imported.In quot. 1700 with reference to the transportation of people from Africa to the Americas as slave labour. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > importer or exporter importer1618 exporter1692 1618 Proclam. James I Manuf. Pins 22 July (single sheet) The same Pinnes..shall be at vsuall rates vttered and sould by the Importers thereof. ?1677 Case His Majesties Sugar Plantations 4 The Importer came generally to pay the Excise as well as the Customs. 1700 S. Sewall Diary 19 June (1973) I. 433 There is a Motion..to get a Law that all Importers of Negros shall pay 40s per head. 1797 Philadelphia Directory 13 Abbot and Simpson, importers and dealers in china, glass, and earthen ware, 80 north second street. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. v. 192 It would then, like the generality of customs duties, fall wholly on the importers, or on the consumers here. 1888 E. Pulsford in 19th Cent. Sept. 397 Up to the present year New South Wales has been a large importer of wheat. 1935 N.Y. Times 23 Nov. 22/8 The importers demanded that the use of the word ‘champagne’ be confined to wines actually made in the Champagne district of France. 1959 F. Sondern Brotherhood of Evil v. 87 A New York ‘importer’, for example, buys two pounds of almost pure heroin from his French supplier. 2006 Financial Times 27 May 20/1 The rules will apply to manufacturers, resellers, importers and exporters of electrical and electronic equipment. 2. gen. A person who, or thing which, brings in or introduces something from another place, source, or context. ΚΠ 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. v. 164 As the inventers of evill things are justly taxed by the Apostle: so the first importers of good things deserve due commendation. 1770 L. Carter Diary 23 Mar. (1965) I. 372 I believe every body begins to laugh at English education. The general importers of it now adays bring back only a stiff priggishness. 1801 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 790/2 Wren..was not the first importer of the term [sc. gothic]. 1830 M. Loudon First Love III. xlix. 386 The importer of so much joy. 1890 ‘Paladin’ Glances at Great & Little Men xi. 180 Probably, as the original importers of evil, they [sc. snakes] would object to any even superficial reformation. 1911 E. H. Brooks Java iii. 49 It is more intelligently perceived that the Hadji is..often the importer of disease. 1992 PC Mag. 26 May 37/1 It's now a far friendlier importer of Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets and macros. 2005 C. Smee Speaking Truth to Power xi. 185 The Department's analysts..have acted as identifiers or early importers of new ideas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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