exportverb
uk/ɪkˈspɔːt/us/ˈek.spɔːrt/B2 [ I or T ] to send goods to another country for sale:
French cheeses are exported to many different countries.
Our clothes sell so well in this country that we have no need to export.
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import verb
[ T ] to put something from one country into use in other countries:
American culture has been exported all over the world.
[ T ] If you export information from a computer, you copy a large amount of it to a different part of the computer's memory or to another device.
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- We export our products to countries as far afield as Japan and Canada.
- Japan exported $117 billion in merchandise to the US in 1999.
- Japan exports a huge quantity of cars around the world.
- An alarming number of these animals are being exported for the pet trade.
- At one time, Cornwall exported millions of tons of copper and tin around the world.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- package
- pile
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- supersize
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
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exportable
adjective uk/ɪkˈspɔː.tə.bəl/us/ɪkˈspɔːr.t̬ə.bəl/
The value of the new television technology to the company is that it is highly exportable (= can be sold in other countries).
exportation
noun [ U ] uk/ˌek.spɔːˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spɔːrˈteɪ.ʃən/
These crates have been packed for exportation (= to be sent for sale in other countries).
exportnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈek.spɔːt/us/ˈek.spɔːrt/B2 a product that you sell in another country, or the business of sending goods to another country in order to sell them there:
Coffee is one of Brazil's main exports.
We plan to increase our exports over the next five years.
The export of ivory is now strictly controlled.
India grows tea for export.
We are planning to develop our export market/trade.
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- These products are not for national consumption, but for export.
- The main crops grown for export are coffee and rice.
- Iraq's principal export is oil.
- Coffee exports earn Brazil many millions of pounds a year.
- In geography, we learned what were the main imports and exports of each country.
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Products & producers
- begetter
- boondoggle
- brand
- by-product
- cash crop
- commodity
- generic
- generically
- goods-producing
- haberdashery
- ironmonger
- production
- purchase
- range
- seller
- shopping
- spin-off
- stock
- supply side
- unit
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