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exporting

exporting

8 2.7
Selling goods to other countries so people there can buy them
  • noun
  • /ɪkˈspɔːrtɪŋ/
translation icon : exportación
  • At one extreme are the members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
  • exporting countries
  • exporting country
  • oil exporting

Russia's dependent on exporting oil and gas.

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Examples

  • The government implemented new policies to support exporting and boost the economy.

  • Norway, as the major net exporting region in the area, has a stronger bargaining position.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Governments of oil-exporting economies primarily influence global markets by building up their foreign assets.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Let's remember that cash reserves in oil-exporting countries are continuing to mount every day.

    Blog text (6)
  • In the case of Almolonga, there has been an increase in the production, trade, and exporting of nontraditional vegetables.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Saudi Arabia and other oil-exporting countries of the Middle East had suddenly achieved powerful economic and diplomatic influence.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Now undisputed, this fundamental political recognition provides the exporting countries with the flexibility to focus on their longer-term economic interests.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Nationalization made the governments of oil-exporting countries richer and more powerful than ever before.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Private coffee-exporting companies were established in the mid-1990s and became the cornerstone of middlemen's proliferation in the 2000s.

    Academic text (2017)
  • China is a leading exporting country, known for sending various goods abroad each year.

Synonyms

exportation
vsexporting
2 3.2

Sending goods to another country to sell them

is limited to selling and sending goods rather than services

Antonyms

1 2.8

Bringing goods into a country to sell

Compounds

A group of countries that produce a lot of oil and agree on how much oil to make and sell

Surface Forms

exporting singular
exportings plural

Morphology

exporting = export (transparent) = export + ing

This is a regular -ing nominalization of the verb 'export', giving the meaning 'the activity or process of exporting'.

Etymology

The word exporting comes from the parts ex- meaning 'out' and port meaning 'to carry', as in transport. So exporting is literally taking goods 'out' of one country to sell in another.