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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To send or transport (a commodity, for example) abroad, especially for trade or sale.
  2. v. To cause the spread of (an idea, for example) in another part of the world; transmit.
  3. v. Computer Science To send (data) from one program to another: "You'll need to export your spreadsheet file into a desktop publishing program” ( Jon Pepper).
  4. v. Computer Science To use an application to store (data) on disk, usually for use by another program.
  5. v. To send or transport abroad merchandise, especially for sale or trade.
  6. n. Exportation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To take or carry away.
  2. Specifically To send to a distant point, as commodities; send for sale or exchange to other countries or places.
  3. n. The act of exporting; exportation: as, to prohibit the export of grain.
  4. n. That which is exported; a commodity carried from one place or country to another for sale: generally in the plural.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of or relating to exportation or exports
  2. n. countable something that is exported
  3. n. uncountable the act of exporting
  4. v. transitive to carry away
  5. v. transitive to sell (goods) to a foreign country
  6. v. transitive to cause to spread in another part of the world
  7. v. transitive, computing : to send (data) from one program to another

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To carry away; to remove.
  2. v. To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import
  3. n. The act of exporting; exportation.
  4. n. That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
  2. v. sell or transfer abroad
  3. v. transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
  4. v. cause to spread in another part of the world

Etymologies

  1. From Latin exportare. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English exsport, from Latin exportāre : ex-, ex- + portāre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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