Definitions for import

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import im·port

Spelling: [verb im-pawrt, -pohrt; noun Import is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in import (imoprt).

Definitions for import

noun

1. something that is imported from abroad; an imported commodity or article.
2. the act of importing or bringing in; importation, as of goods from abroad:
3. consequence or importance:
4. meaning; implication; purport:

verb (used with object)

1. to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
2. to bring or introduce from one use, connection, or relation into another:
3. to convey as meaning or implication; signify:
4. to involve as a necessary circumstance; imply:
5. Computers. to bring (documents, data, etc.) into one software program from another.
6. Archaic. to be of consequence or importance to; concern.

verb (used without object)

1. to be of consequence or importance; to matter:

Origin of import

1400-50; late Middle English importen Latin importāre. See im-¹, port⁵

Examples for import

CEO Mark Thompson, a solidly-built, 6-foot-2 import from the BBC.

It seemed to be a question directed to them, but the import of it was lost.

It also claimed that he had traveled to Turkey to buy communication equipment to import to Iran.

Earlier this year, a Long Island man admitted to trying to import 40,000 piranhas from Hong Kong.

She was so full of her own thoughts at that time, that she did not fairly take in the import of her words.

After all, the four-term Congresswoman is hardly dripping with historical, or even political, import.

What mean these two days wasted at Axminster at a time when every hour is of import?

She continued, therefore, without troubling herself as to their import.

The import of those words resonated through my entire being.

And then there is not such mystery about these matters as we import into them.