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export

export

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A product or service sold to another country
  • noun
  • /ˈɛkspɔrt/
translation icon : exportación
  • The country's exports include a variety of agricultural products, which are shipped to international markets.
  • imports and exports
  • export earnings
  • manufactured exports

So the friendlies main export is human cannon fodder.

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Examples

  • Colombia has two important exports, and one of them's coffee.

  • Syria has not done well in connecting its exports to the basic needs of real development.

    Academic text (1999)
  • One key British export is the North Seas oil and gas.

  • Her father was a clerk in an export business.

  • So today we boost our skills, our exports, our science and our infrastructure.

  • The real benefits from trade come not from exports, but from imports.

  • In practice, more exports means higher GDP.

  • Your land is mostly mountainous and your chief export is Chrome.

  • In fact, they have continued to increase exports even as total output has been sluggish.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The market reforms imposed by the Pinochet regime made exports the engine of Chile's economic development.

    Academic text (1999)

Antonyms

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A thing brought from another country to sell or use

Compounds

A farm product sold to other countries

export credit
  • Specialized
1 5.1

A loan from a bank in the seller's country to help a buyer pay for goods sent to another country

export duty
  • Specialized
4.5

A tax a government charges on goods sent out of a country

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Surface Forms

export singular
exports plural

Etymology

Export comes from Latin ex- 'out' and portare 'to carry', so an export is literally something 'carried out' of a country; that is why we call a product sold overseas an export.