Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To bring back into a country (goods made from its exported raw materials).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bring back.
- To import again; carry back to the country of exportation.
- noun Same as
reimportation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or practice of
importing again, or back to a place of origin;reimportation . - noun A product which has been reimported.
- verb To
import again. - verb To import goods which have previously been
exported , particularlypharmaceutical products, back into the country of origin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It sounds silly to "reimport" drugs that are marketed in the United States, but even with the added transaction costs, doing so is cheaper than buying them here.
The Truth About the Drug Companies Angell, Marcia 2004
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Near the top of the agenda: an amendment from Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan that would have allowed U.S. pharmacies and drug wholesalers to "reimport" drugs from foreign countries.
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Near the top of the agenda: an amendment from Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan that would have allowed U.S. pharmacies and drug wholesalers to "reimport" drugs from foreign countries.
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The people with high willingness to pay just buy the drugs on the open market, whereas the people with low willingness to pay reimport.
Drug Price Discrimination?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We could, for example, allow Americans to reimport drugs from Canada.
Drew Westen: Why President Obama's 'Taurus Tax' Is the Wrong Medicine 2010
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This is convenient for a relatively small list of images; if you had 50,000 instead of 2000 you might choose to store just the file name and reimport the image when needed.
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The amendment to allow consumers to reimport drugs from other approved countries fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass.
Health-care reform: Drug imports finally get a vote after “furious” lobbying campaign 2009
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During the campaign, and I played this sound earlier today, candidate Obama was passionate, saying we need to renegotiate so that we can to reimport drugs from Canada if they're cheaper.
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The amendment to allow consumers to reimport drugs from other approved countries fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass.
Health-care reform: Drug imports finally get a vote after “furious” lobbying campaign 2009
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Regular readers will recall that the database for this site crashed bigtime in the first week of September 2006, and while no posts were lost, I chose to restart the database at square one rather than reimport everything into what appeared to be a fairly rickety structure.
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