n. 25B6; verb the UK imports iron ore : BUY FROM ABROAD, bring in, buy in, ship in.
export.
25B6; noun
a tax on imports : IMPORTED COMMODITY, foreign commodity.
the import of foreign books : IMPORTATION, importing, bringing in, bringing from abroad, shipping in.
a matter of great import : IMPORTANCE, significance, consequence, momentousness, magnitude, substance, weight, note, gravity, seriousness; formal moment.
the full import of her words : MEANING, sense, essence, gist, drift, purport, message, thrust, substance, implication.
export, insignificance.