IMPORTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imported mean? 

• IMPORTED (adjective)
  The adjective IMPORTED has 1 sense:

1. used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source

  Familiarity information: IMPORTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPORTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source

Context example:

imported wines

Similar:

foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)

 Context examples 

We must sterilise all the imported earth between sunrise and sunset; we shall thus catch the Count at his weakest, and without a refuge to fly to.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One of the oldest original early American pig strains, the Hampshire pig originated from the Old English breed and was imported to North American in the mid-1800s.

(Hampshire Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The Landrace pig was imported into the UK in 1949 and disseminated worldwide beginning in the 1950s.

(Landrace Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The Mongolian gerbil was first imported into the United States in 1954 by Dr. Victor Schwentker.

(Mongolian Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus)

His last words were balm: they seemed to imply that it imported something to him whether I forgot him or not.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Also, smallholders who rely on costly imported feed will be hit if a user fee is imposed.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

While electric vehicles offer many advantages—including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the country's dependence on imported petroleum—at least one barrier stands in the way of their large-scale adoption: range anxiety.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

Oh, this is a Havana, and these others are cigars of the peculiar sort which are imported by the Dutch from their East Indian colonies.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Hartley guinea pig was imported from the Medical Research Council, Millhill, England, to Charles River in 1968 for propagation.

(Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

Leo also rules fine imported chocolates, fine wines, champagne and liquors, upscale spas, yachts, private planes, expensive, custom automobiles, castles, condos, and co-ops. You get the idea.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)