IMPORTING

importing, importation

(noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

importing

present participle of import

Source: Wiktionary


Im*port"ing, a.

Definition: Full of meaning. [Obs.] Shak.

IMPORT

Im*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imported; p. pr. & vb. n. Importing.] Etym: [L. importare to bring in, to occasion, to cause; pref. im- in + portare to bear. Sense 3 comes through F. importer, from the Latin. See Port demeanor.]

1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc.

2. To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify. Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together. Hooker.

3. To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern. I have a motion much imports your good. Shak. If I endure it, what imports it you Dryden.

Syn.

– To denote; mean; sighify; imply; indicate; betoken; interest; concern.

Im*port", v. i.

Definition: To signify; to purport; to be of moment. "For that . . . importeth to the work." Bacon.

Im"port, n.

1. Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports. I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them. Burke.

2. That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.

3. Importance; weight; consequence. Most serious design, and the great import. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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