importation

Examples

• All

• Nonetheless, there were additional cultural factors promoting the importation of this American entertainment form into Britain.

  Academic text (1990)

• Some individuals oppose both the imperial system and the importation of foreign rice.

  Academic text (1991)

• What I want to do is sell their gifts to the West through an importation business.

  Born Guilty (2017)

• Weak protection abroad can mean weak protection at home if barriers to importation are removed.

  Academic text (1994)

• Vito got 16 years for the importation and distribution of narcotics.

  The Alto Knights (2025)

• Faced with a labor shortage, planters requested the importation of cheap labor from India.

  Academic text (1994)

• In 1961, for example, Chile banned the importation of Peruvian pisco.

  Academic text (2011)

• Joe Kennedy made a lot of money in the liquor industry when he gained evidently inside information about the end of prohibition, and got a lock on the importation of Scotch from the British Isles.

  JFK Assassination: A New Perspective (2025)

• As a Republican protectionist, McKinley understood that substantial tariffs prevented the importation of many international goods because it made doing business in the U.S. too expensive for many foreigners.

  4 Presidents (2020)

• The USDA requires permits for the importation of plants into the United States.

Synonyms

I

import

vsimportation

219 2.7

A thing brought from another country to sell or use

also covers the action of bringing those items into the country

I

importing

vsimportation

1 2.8

Bringing goods into a country to sell

includes both the act and the goods brought in

How Large

importation

11 3.6

shipment

231 2.3

consignment

• Specialized

5 5.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology