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Articles or items produced to be sold or being sold
Plural for the action or process of importing goods or services
“The manufacturers seem to think that restrictions on the import of foreign corn are open to some special and peculiar objection in principle, to which restrictions on the import of foreign manufactured goods are not liable.”
Plural for the meaning of something
“Finally, it will be worth considering a small incident in the life of a woman that has more symbolic import than real-life significance.”
Plural for importance or significance attributed to something
“They are momentary events of great import and even beauty.”
To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade
“Businesses needed dollars to import goods, and banks charged high rates of interest for hard currency.”
To be significant or of importance
“If my authority is of no weight hereafter, it will import little that I have deceived myself upon this point.”
To mean or signify
“We must enquire into why he is called the desire of all nations, and what that phrase may import.”
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