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reimportation

reimportation

1 7.0
Bringing goods back into a country after they were exported
  • noun
  • /ˌriːɪmˌpɔːrˈteɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : reimportación
  • Yeah, I for one lost all faith in the process when I saw how the White House dealt with drug reimportation.
  • reimportation of drugs

Examples

  • One possible issue: we'd want to make sure that reimportation didn't take place, as that would take these machines out of the hands of developing world schoolkids.

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  • At this point, they should call the WH, demand an audience, and level the boom on Obama for both a vibrant PO that starts immediately and for drug reimportation that starts immediately and for an end to 7-year patents.

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  • McCain-Reimportation of Drugs? A significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety.

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  • How can you trust health care "reform" when the two biggest pro-consumer ideas—the public option and drug reimportation—are fanatically kept out of the bill?

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  • The details of the bill that matter to Obama are those that affect his relationship with his donors—e.g., dropping the money-saving drug reimportation clause of the bill, which big Pharma opposed.

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  • The company plans to begin reimportation of its products after seeing a demand in the domestic market.

  • After reviewing trade policies, the government is considering reimportation to bring back goods that were previously exported.

  • The reimportation of vintage wines from France has become a popular trend among collectors.

Synonyms

repatriation
vsreimportation
12 7.2

The return of people or objects to their own country

refers only to goods sent back after export

Antonyms

2 3.2

Sending goods to another country to sell them

Surface Forms

reimportation singular

Morphology

reimportation = reimport (transparent) = re + import + ation

Adding '-ation' to the verb 'reimport' straightforwardly forms a noun meaning the act or process of reimporting.

Etymology

Reimportation starts with re- meaning 'again' and import meaning 'to bring in', the same idea as the common word import. So Reimportation is the act of bringing goods 'back into' a country after they were sent out.