IMPORTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does importer mean? 

• IMPORTER (noun)
  The noun IMPORTER has 1 sense:

1. someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPORTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Derivation:

import (bring in from abroad)

 Context examples 

His name was Tito Castalotte, and he was the senior partner of the great firm of Castalotte and Zamba, who are the chief fruit importers of New York.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers of Fenchurch Street.

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

The Dancies came too and S. B. Whitebait, who was well over sixty, and Maurice A. Flink and the Hammerheads and Beluga the tobacco importer and Beluga's girls.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)