(~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
To ~ products or raw materials means to sell them to another country.
The nation also ~s beef...
They expect the antibiotic products to be ~ed to Southeast Asia and Africa...
To earn foreign exchange we must ~.
? import
VERB: V n, be V-ed to n, V, also V n to n
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Export is also a noun.
...the production and ~ of cheap casual wear...
...illegal arms ~s.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
2.
Exports are goods which are sold to another country and sent there.
He did this to promote American ~s...
Ghana’s main ~ is cocoa.
? import
N-COUNT
3.
To ~ something means to introduce it into another country or make it happen there.
It has ~ed inflation at times.
...hecklers who said the deal would ~ jobs to Mexico.
? import
VERB: V n, V n to n
4.
In computing, if you ~ files or information from one type of software into another type, you change their format so that they can be used in the new software.
Files can be ~ed in ASCII or PCX formats.
? import
VERB: be V-ed, also V n