The verb is pronounced /ɪmpɔ:(r)t/. The noun is pronounced /ɪmpɔ:(r)t/.
( imported)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
To import products or raw materials means to buy them from another country for use in your own country.
Britain last year spent nearly £5000 million more on importing food than selling abroad...
To import from Russia, a Ukrainian firm needs Russian roubles.
...imported goods from Mexico and India.
≠ export
VERB : V n , V from n , V-ed
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Import is also a noun.
Germany, however, insists on restrictions on the import of Polish coal...
≠ export
N-UNCOUNT : also N in pl
• im‧por‧ta‧tion
...restrictions concerning the importation of birds.
N-UNCOUNT : usu N of n
2.
Imports are products or raw materials bought from another country for use in your own country.
...farmers protesting about cheap imports.
N-COUNT : usu pl
3.
The import of something is its importance. ( FORMAL )
Such arguments are of little import.
= consequence
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you import files or information into one type of software from another type, you open them in a format that can be used in the new software. ( COMPUTING )
You can import files from Microsoft Word 5.1 or MacWrite II.
≠ export
VERB : V n
5.
The import of something is its meaning, especially when the meaning is not clearly expressed. ( FORMAL )
I have already spoken about the import of his speech.
N-SING : with poss