IMPORTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does importation mean? 

• IMPORTATION (noun)
  The noun IMPORTATION has 2 senses:

1. the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country

2. commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country

  Familiarity information: IMPORTATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPORTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

importation; importing

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

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "importation"):

smuggling (secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due)

Derivation:

import (bring in from abroad)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

import; importation

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

commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)

Derivation:

import (bring in from abroad)

 Context examples 

No such importation of novelties could enrich their intellectual stores at present.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Ask him the grain output of Paraguay for 1903, or the English importation of sheetings into China for 1890, or at what weight Jimmy Britt fought Battling Nelson, or who was welter-weight champion of the United States in '68, and you'll get the correct answer with the automatic celerity of a slot-machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)