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Definition of importation in English: importationnoun ɪmpɔːˈteɪʃ(ə)n mass noun1The bringing of goods or services into a country from abroad for sale. manufacturers fought to restrict the importation of cheap foreign goods the government takes a tough stance on illegal drug importation Example sentencesExamples - The Federal Noxious Weed Law (1974) controls the importation of weed species into the United States.
- The effect of the rule was "to prevent the importation of those supplies which were indispensable for an armed resistance to Great Britain."
- The importation of foreign films was strongly curtailed.
- The figures of slave importations on the eve of the American Civil War bear this out - an expansion of the trade was the only way to procure more slaves.
- The European Commission used the protocol to ban importation of U.S. biotech crops.
- She is working hard to make prescription drugs more affordable and importation from Canada legal.
- Local officials reportedly profited handsomely from the illegal importation of used cars.
- Congress has determined the value of imported goods to be their customs' value upon importation.
- What the regulations do is prohibit the importation of guns.
- Commercial loans for the importation of equipment are allowed up to 100 per cent of the amount invested.
2The introduction of an idea from a different place or context. his avid importation of ideas from European and Asian thinkers Example sentencesExamples - His madrigals were probably the first to be known to English composers before the importation of madrigals from Italy was customary.
- The author has a good deal to say about Emerson's importation of Asian literature into his own poems and the subsequent congeniality of Buddhism for other writers in the American canon.
- One of the colonists ' importations was viticulture.
- Jumping and weight throwing he regarded as traditional Irish events; racing and cycling were dismissed as English importations.
- It was not the attempted importation of the Anglo-American model that was to blame for Asia's startling economic collapse in 1998.
- What we have here is the perfect illustration of just what can happen to cultural importations once they make their way into the Japanese cultural mainstream.
- Art on Russian soil was essentially an importation of ecclesiastical models, chiefly icons, derived from Byzantine art.
- The cult of St Zita, a household servant saint, is a late medieval importation from Lucca.
- He is referring to the internationalisation of English fiction that took place in the 1980s, but there was also importation from a native English tradition.
- Globalisation, he admits, does mean 'the importation of Western culture' into poor countries.
Definition of importation in US English: importationnounˌimpôrˈtāSHən 1The bringing of goods or services into a country from abroad for sale. manufacturers fought to restrict the importation of cheap foreign goods the government takes a tough stance on illegal drug importation Example sentencesExamples - The European Commission used the protocol to ban importation of U.S. biotech crops.
- What the regulations do is prohibit the importation of guns.
- The figures of slave importations on the eve of the American Civil War bear this out - an expansion of the trade was the only way to procure more slaves.
- The effect of the rule was "to prevent the importation of those supplies which were indispensable for an armed resistance to Great Britain."
- Commercial loans for the importation of equipment are allowed up to 100 per cent of the amount invested.
- The importation of foreign films was strongly curtailed.
- She is working hard to make prescription drugs more affordable and importation from Canada legal.
- Local officials reportedly profited handsomely from the illegal importation of used cars.
- Congress has determined the value of imported goods to be their customs' value upon importation.
- The Federal Noxious Weed Law (1974) controls the importation of weed species into the United States.
2The introduction of an idea from a different place or context. his avid importation of ideas from European and Asian thinkers Example sentencesExamples - Jumping and weight throwing he regarded as traditional Irish events; racing and cycling were dismissed as English importations.
- Art on Russian soil was essentially an importation of ecclesiastical models, chiefly icons, derived from Byzantine art.
- What we have here is the perfect illustration of just what can happen to cultural importations once they make their way into the Japanese cultural mainstream.
- The author has a good deal to say about Emerson's importation of Asian literature into his own poems and the subsequent congeniality of Buddhism for other writers in the American canon.
- One of the colonists ' importations was viticulture.
- It was not the attempted importation of the Anglo-American model that was to blame for Asia's startling economic collapse in 1998.
- The cult of St Zita, a household servant saint, is a late medieval importation from Lucca.
- Globalisation, he admits, does mean 'the importation of Western culture' into poor countries.
- His madrigals were probably the first to be known to English composers before the importation of madrigals from Italy was customary.
- He is referring to the internationalisation of English fiction that took place in the 1980s, but there was also importation from a native English tradition.
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