Similar words: import, important, importune, importance, importunate, unimportant, importantly, of importance. Meaning: [ɪm'pɔrt /-'pɔːt] adj. used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source.
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151 The air was thick with the smells of fat imported cigars and the kind of champagne better worn than swallowed.
152 Market trends indicate that imported wines have been the main winner - Scotch Whisky the main loser. 4.
153 Alongside the Manchester Ship Canal there were open spaces suitable for large modern factories using imported raw materials.
154 Current prices and product lists are imported into the system by dialing into a central computer with a modem.
155 In December, total imported vehicle sales increased 22. 1 percent to 38, 861 units, the association said.
156 Sixty percent of the content of local cars is from imported parts, and those costs will be passed on to consumers.
157 Because international surveillance is severely limited, early detection of infections that are imported from abroad is often delayed.
158 Another example of an imported good with a widespread distribution is ivory, which normally occurs as rings.
159 Dark environments overcome by imported religious signs and local domestic amenities.
160 King James offered financial rewards to persuade people to plant mulberries to feed his imported silkworms.
161 Basra imported vast quantities of kermes and indigo to dye textiles red and blue.
162 The report estimates that about 234,000 shells have been imported since 1981.
163 Many fear that quality will be sacrificed for cheap and easy quantity, envisaging a fifth channel dominated by low-cost imported programmes.
164 Farmers are calling for a boycott of all imported meat.
165 The second species, R. humilis, has been imported and is cultivated in aquariums and terrariums.
166 In the absence of checks on imported data, the potential exists for this data to subvert programs running on the systems.
167 But the die had been cast, in part through the power of imported ideas, in part through sheer frustration.
168 Stainless steel made good medium of exchange on a planet where all metal had to be imported.
169 It seems probable that Kent imported material directly from the Frankish world.
170 Sometimes outside consultants were used in the workshops, a refreshing blend of local and imported talents and experiences.
171 What is more, 20 million tonnes of imported coal means another £1,000 million added to the balance of payments deficit.
172 In 1990, it imported over 900,000 cubic metres of tropical timber, and nearly eight million finished tropical timber products.
173 It crushes our potentialities and invades our lives with its imported products and televised movies that swamp the airwaves.
174 The technique allows manufacturers to shut down unofficially imported electronic goods.
175 Marbles and granites were imported and the building was embellished with appropriate statuary and ornamentation.
176 Not the imported store tomatoes that were strip-mined in Texas, but fresh garden tomatoes that taste like tomatoes.
177 Most ReD seems to focus on indigenization, quality control and troubleshooting of imported technology.
178 Some smogs can be made worse when pollution is imported from outside the city boundary from neighbouring urban-industrial areas.
179 Advanced imported photoelectric supervision system is used.
180 He imported wine by the boatload.
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