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  1. transitive verb To bring or carry in from an outside source, especially to bring in (goods or materials) from a foreign country for trade or sale.
  2. transitive verb Computer Science To receive (data) into one program from another.
  3. transitive verb To carry or hold the meaning of; signify: a high inflation rate importing hard times for the consumer.
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  • Such sounding phrases make us smile: but they entirely depend on custom for their import, and the smile which they excite is not by any means a philosophic one. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Thomas Carlyle
  • To stop the import is the only way—short of the still more drastic method of heavily fining everyone who wears feathers in public, with imprisonment for a second offence. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2
  • Most consumer edit packages simply convert AVCHD to MPeg2 on import which is an extra recode in the path. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • By 2020, the president said, a 40 percent improvement to 35 mpg could save 2 million barrels of oil a day - "nearly the amount of oil that we import from the Persian Gulf." —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • The extra import is a little cumbersome, but it makes it possible to use the same Actionscript code in both Flex and CS3. —  News
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  1. Middle English importen, to convey a meaning, from Medieval Latin importāre and from Old French importer, to cause, both from Latin importāre, to carry in, cause : in-, in; see in-2 + portāre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French emporter, importer, carry, French emporter, carry away, prevail, importer, import, matter, signify; also, more recently, in the literally sense of the L., introduce, import, = Spanish Portuguese importar = Italian importare, signify, express, from Latin importare, inportare, bring in, introduce from abroad, bring about, occasion, cause, from in, in, + portare, carry: see port. Cf. export, etc.
  2. = Old French emport, a carrying a way, influence, favor, importance; from the verb: see import, v.
 

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