Results for import

Definitions of import:

part of speech: verb transitive

To carry into: to bring from abroad: to convey, as a word: to signify: to be of consequence to: to interest.

part of speech: noun

That which is brought into a country; that which is conveyed by words; meaning.

part of speech: noun

That which is brought from abroad: meaning: importance: tendency.

part of speech: noun

IMPORTANCE.

part of speech: verb transitive

To bring, as goods or wares, into a country from abroad for commercial purposes; bring in from without; to mean; betoken; be of interest or consequence to; concern.

part of speech: verb

To bring in from another state or country; to bear or convey by words; to mean; to signify; to be of weight or consequence.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To be of consequence.

part of speech: noun

Merchandise brought into a country from abroad; usually in plural; meaning; significance; consequence.

Usage examples for import:

• He brings information of great import if true; there is immense danger in accepting it, if false. "Who Goes There?", Blackwood Ketcham Benson

• I can read your thoughts, and I might affect to despise their import perhaps two years since I should- at present I can pity and excuse them. "Pelham, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009

• Whether it would not be a monstrous folly to import nothing but gold and silver, supposing we might do it, from every foreign part to which we trade? "The Querist", George Berkley

• Thy design and what of import that is which thou dost carry in thy bosom. "A Maid at King Alfred’s Court", Lucy Foster Madison