to import

Examples

• All

• Your looks are pale and wild and do import some misadventure.

  Romeo + Juliet (1996)

• Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?

  Hamlet (2000)

• I think it does not import.

  The Ten Commandments (2007)

• Actuarial risk assessment will import the effects of race and class disparities earlier in the system.

  Academic text (2017)

• Do those words seem to import any notion of a substantive ban on things that might be done, at least according to their literal meaning?

• Finally, my reading seems to wrongly import the methodology of Kant's theoretical philosophy into his practical philosophy.

  Academic text (2017)

• The student-as-consumer mentality was imported into the educational world in an effort to make schools and colleges efficient knowledge factories.

  Academic text (1998)

• Culture, as the dominant factor, influences his/her knowledge by importing values, norms, and beliefs.

  Academic text (2004)

• In the poem, every line seems to import a deeper meaning about love.

• The artist's work is said to import themes of resilience and hope.

Synonyms

S

to spell

vsto import

111 7.2

Cause something bad to happen

indicate meaning or significance formally rather than causing effects

Idioms

O

of import

• Archaic

2 5.9

Having a big effect or a lot of value for people

Compounds

I

import duty

• Specialized

1 4.1

A tax the government charges on goods brought into a country

I

import credit

• Specialized

4.7

A bank promise to pay a foreign seller for goods a company buys from another country

I

import barrier

5.5

A rule or tax that limits goods coming into a country

How Clear

to mean

∞ 1.6

to import

• Formal

6 8.2

to suggest

∞ 1.6

to imply

367 3.5

to hint

136 2.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology