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to export

to export

28 3.5
To spread an idea or activity to another country
  • verb
  • /ˈɛkspɔrt/
translation icon : exportar
  • We need to export our cultural values to promote understanding and collaboration globally.
  • export democracy
  • export culture
  • export the revolution

So here to control and from there to export the same ideology.

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Examples

  • We are responsible for exporting a pretty negative view of women.

  • We will export our revolution throughout the world because it is an Islamic revolution.

    Academic text (2011)
  • "A lot of countries have contemporary designers and markets where people are trying to export their cultural identity," she said.

    Academic text (2012)
  • But secondly, we seem determined to try to export those values, and it makes us into a laughing stock.

  • Incidentally, I wish you Canadians would export your wonderful system of gun control to the United States.

    Academic text (1994)
  • But you know, we're we're exporting these ideas that are potentially detrimental.

  • Blue Zones around the the world, places where people are living the longest are drying up because we are exporting our way of eating.

  • The young United States exported tobacco, the habit for which spread rapidly across Europe, Africa, and Asia.

    Academic text (1993)
  • As Zakaria points out, exporting democracy is much easier than exporting the rule of law.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The Iranian debate about exporting the revolution is not theoretical and limited only to theological seminaries or political speeches.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

to transplant
vsto export
14 4.2

To move someone, a plant, or an idea to a new place

introduces the same idea specifically to another country or place
to globalize
vsto export
  • US
4 5.4

Make something known and used in many countries

introduces it to another country or place rather than worldwide

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

How International

to export
28 3.5

Surface Forms

export infinitive
exported past
exported past participle
exporting present participle
exports third person singular

Morphology

export = port (semi-transparent) = ex + port

The sense 'introduce or spread an idea abroad' is a metaphorical extension of 'send out', so the link is clear but not strictly literal.

Etymology

Export comes from Latin ex- 'out' and portare 'to carry', so to export an idea or activity is to 'carry out' that culture or belief to other places, which is why we say films or movements export culture abroad.