import
/ˈɪm.pɔːt/ · im·port
noun
- A product or commodity brought into a country from abroad, especially for sale or trade. The company increased its profits by expanding its import of exotic fruits.
- The act or practice of bringing goods into a country. Import regulations have become stricter to protect domestic industries.
- Significance or importance; the weight of something. The discovery was of great import to the scientific community.
verb
- To bring (something) into a country from abroad, especially for sale or trade. They plan to import renewable energy equipment from Europe.
- To load data or a file into a software application from another source or version. You can import contacts from your old phone into the new app.
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Did you know? The computing sense of “import” emerged in the 1970s with early programming languages, borrowing the idea of bringing external resources into a program, much like goods are brought into a country.