Synonym: admit, bring in, effect, implication, importance, introduce, meaning, receive, significance, substance, take in. Antonym: export. Similar words: important, importantly, of importance, impose, contemporary, port, support, report. Meaning: [ɪm'pɔrt /-'pɔːt] n. 1. commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country 2. an imported person brought from a foreign country 3. the message that is intended or expressed or signified 4. a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred 5. having important effects or influence. v. 1. bring in from abroad 2. indicate or signify.
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121. Part of the reason is that their earnings are dissipated by prices kept high by import controls.
122. Conversely, suppose the United States was to solve its trade imbalance by imposing import quotas.
123. The results of searches can be saved to floppies for import into word processing or bibliographic software.
124. But that was before presidential politics intruded and the 4. 3-cent-a-gallon gas tax suddenly took on huge political import.
125. Moreover they could always use family labour or import casual labour to carry out any essential work.
126. Import duties on some goods can be avoided if you know how.
127. It also believes strongly that there should be a ban on the import of hazardous waste into the United Kingdom.
128. Unfortunately, quasi-socialistic import substitution did not work anywhere it was tried.
129. The Authority's proposals had involved the imposition of import controls and production quotas.
130. A man who lost his agency for imported electronic equipment, for example, did not praise nationalization of the import business.
131. This will produce more pressure in the west for import restrictions.
132. There is a tremendous deficit between what we import and what we export.
133. All of this was fine with Jim, though it hardly seemed of major import.
134. Sanctions meant he could no longer import spares but the value of his existing stock had increased tenfold.
135. As a result, import prices rise relatively little even when the dollar plunges.
136. He also will plead guilty to conspiring to import five kilos of heroin into New York.
137. At the time, the country hiked import duties, imposed exchange-rate controls and nationalized the banks.
138. He argued that the road to development should be built with import substitution and quasi-socialism.
139. Business is also booming in the Far East, though Hong Kong suffered from higher costs and increased import duties.
140. To pay the interest on our foreign debt,[http://sentencedict.com/import.html] we will have to import less.
141. It would prefer to import technologies, enabling it to copy or co-produce.
142. It is in this context that the dramatic growth of cooperation assumes its full import.
143. After his election in 1984, Leon Febres Cordero lowered import barriers and subsidies, and ran a tight fiscal policy.
144. Inspectors found that the import/export business was just a front for a huge drug smuggling operation.
145. This was sufficiently pronounced to offset the drop in the oil import bill following the recent price collapse.
146. Today, Guinness Import Company employs approximately 120 people and operates through a nationwide chain of wholesalers.
147. The weight of import dependence on Middle East oil supply has shifted from west to east.
148. Indeed, if monetary relaxation succeeds in stabilising output, it should unlock sharp productivity gains which could finance higher import costs.
149. He will want to avoid a further decline for fear that import price rises will push up inflation.
150. Please give the unit import price of each grade.
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