Dictionary

importation en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English import Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English importation From import + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or an instance of importing.
   • "A subway would require the importation of workers from Russia," says a young man from Rīga. 1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 630:
2. (countable, uncountable) The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country.
3. (countable, uncountable) That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
4. (countable, uncountable) The use of a term which consists of formally foreign elements.
5. (countable, uncountable) The logical law (P→(Q→R))⇒((P∧Q)→R).

Forms

Coordinates

substitution

Deriveds

overimportation · nonimportation · reimportation

Hypernyms

loan

Translations (13)

sv lån (A term consisting of formally foreign elements) · uk і́мпорт (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country) · ca importació (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country) · pt importação (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country) · it importazione (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country) · de lexikalische Entlehnung (A term consisting of formally foreign elements) · de lexikalischer Import (A term consisting of formally foreign elements) · es importación (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country) · fr importation (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country) · uk вве́зення (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country) · uk ввіз (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country) · fi tuonti (A term consisting of formally foreign elements) · uk імпортува́ння (the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country)