reimportation
- noun
- /ˌriːɪmˌpɔːrˈteɪʃən/
- Specialized
- 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
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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.
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After reviewing trade policies, the government is considering reimportation to bring back goods that were previously exported.
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The reimportation of vintage wines from France has become a popular trend among collectors.
Synonyms
The return of people or objects to their own country
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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.