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EXPORTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exporter mean? 

EXPORTER (noun)
  The noun EXPORTER has 1 sense:

1. a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale)play

  Familiarity information: EXPORTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXPORTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exporter" is a kind of...):

bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

Derivation:

export (sell or transfer abroad)


 Context examples 


Brazil is the greatest sugarcane producer in the world and the main exporter of ethanol, which also powers 40 per cent of vehicles in the country.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

Norway, Brunei and Saudi Arabia have all flagged that they wish to be an exporter of hydrogen around the world.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)



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